ITALIxVN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



*• Diva Marise ;" " St. Philip of Neri, in Heaven before 

 tlie Trinity," infcribed " Cui nomen dedit alma Trias ;" 

 «' St. Etnigde, interceding for the Neapolitans," infcribed 

 •' Divo Eniigdo in terra: inotum, et Neopolis Patrono ; 

 and " St. Gregory the Martyr, with the Subjcds of his 

 Miracles," all of folio dimenfions. 



Andrea Magliar was born at Naples in the year 1692. 

 He engraved from the pictures of Solimene and other 

 mailers, but is very little known, and we are not able to 

 fpccify any of hi's works. His fon, Giofefl'o Magliar, was 

 the difciple of his father and of Sohmene; and great expecta- 

 tions were formed, from the early fpccimens which he gave 

 of his abilities, but he died young. There is a print by 

 him, of " Chriil appearing to St. William," of folio fize, 

 from Solimene, which certainly is a work of confiderable 

 promife. 



Giovanni Dominico Campiglia, was born at Luques 

 ill the year 1C92. At Florence he became the pupil of 

 Thon;afo Redi, and Lorenzo del Moro : and at Bologna he 

 iludied in the fchool of Giofeffo del Sole. He drew moll 

 of the ftatues, bnfts. and portraits of the Florentine gallery, 

 and corrpofed the typographical ornaments for that work. 

 Campiglia was invited to Rome, where he did the drawings 

 of the fculptnres of the Capitol, tlie firll volume of which 

 appeared in 1741. He has etched a great number of plates, 

 with fome talle, and among them the following portraits ; 

 Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Julio Romano, Salvator Rofa, 

 Leonardo da Vinci, and Giovanni Antonio Razzi ; all of 

 folio dimenfions. 



Giovanni Batifta Tiepolo, was born at Venice in the year 

 1697, and died at Madrid A.D. 1770. In his youth he 

 frequented the fchool of Gregory Lazarini, and after having 

 worked at Milan, and in other parts of Italy, he travelled to 

 Germany, and painted, in the cpifcopid palace of Wurzburg, 

 the hall, the llaircafe, and two altar pieces. He afterwards 

 went to Spain, and painted in conjunction witli Mengs, who 

 became jealous of him ; but for the detail of his merits in 

 this art, fee the article Tiepolo. 



Tiepolo engraved fifty-fix fubjefts in a very fuperior ftyle, 

 exceedingly neat, and with talle, corretlnefs, and fpirit, 

 from which the following are fckiited. " Th.^ Adoration of 

 the Kings," in folio, from his own compofition, which is 

 generally regarded as his chef-d'oeuvre. A fet of fancy fub- 

 jefts, confining of twenty-four plates, in quarto. And 

 another fet of fancy fubjecls, in ten plates, fmaller than the 

 foregoing. All from his own coinpofitions. 



Govanni Domenico Tiepolo was the fon of the preceding 

 ■artiil, and was born at Venice A.D. 1726. He learned the 

 principles of drawing and paintin;' of his father, and in 

 1745, painted the figures of the cupola of the church cf 

 St. Fauilin, and ^t. "jovita at BrelTe. 



He alfo occafionally took up the etching point as his fa- 

 ther had done, working foinetimes in a ilyle which bears re- 

 feniblance to the etchings of Cafliglione, and on other occa- 

 fions in that of his father. His bell prints are, a fet of 

 twenty-feven fmall plates, lengthways, reprefenting, in 

 feries, " The Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt ;" a 

 fet of twenty-fix heads, of the fame fize, executed in the 

 ftyle of Calliglione ; " The Way to the Crofs, or the Hif- 

 tory of the Crucifixion of our Saviour," in fourteen plates 

 of quarto fize ; " The Miracle of St. Francis ;" " The 

 Miracle of St. Jerome," both ia quarto ; "The Republic 

 of Venice receiving the Riches of Neptune," an al egory, in 

 folio ; " The Virgin in the Clouds appearing to St. 

 Thcrcfia, and two other female Saints ;" and " St. Am- 

 brofe preaching to the People," both in large foliOi The 

 whole after the defigns of tlic elder Tiepolo,' 



I^orenzo Tiepolo, brotiier to the above-mentioned arti{^, 

 was alfo a painter, and etched in a ftyle, and with a de- 

 gree of talle which appears hereditary, from the defigns 

 of his father. 



Giulio Giampicoli, or Jampiccoli, was born at Venice 

 A.D. 1 700. We are ignorant under what mailer he learned 

 engraving, but Ids ftyle greatly refembles that of tiie fchool 

 of Wagner. He mingled etching with the work of the 

 graver, and engraved both billory and landfcape with fuc- 

 cefs ; the following few may be reckoned among his bell 

 produtlions. A fet of thirteen landfcapes, from Marco 

 Ricci, in large folio. A fet of pailoral fubjeds in four 

 plates, each being infcribed with fix Italian verfes ; and four 

 landfcapes after Ivlarco Ricci, and F. Zuccarelli, in large 

 folio. 



Francifco Polanzani^ or Polanfani, was born at Andale, 

 ncir Venice, A.D. 1700, and refided at Rome. The moll 

 confiderable work we have by him, is a fet of twenty-twu 

 plates, of which the fubjefts are from the life of the Virgin, 

 cither after Poufiin, or, more probably, from Jacques 

 Stella (to whom Baflan attributed them). The following 

 may alfo be reckoned among his beft produftions. The 

 bull of a female, from C. Cignani. A biift of a blind mu- 

 fician, from Marco Benefiali. " Mater amabi'is," from 

 Jof. Nogari. Two other fubjecls from the fame mafter, 

 an old Man with a Bag of Money ; and an Old Woman 

 with a Hand Granade, all of quarto fize. And " An Old 

 Woman warming herfelf over a Chafing-dilh ;" from the 

 fame painter, in folio. 



Giovanni-Batifta Pittoni, was born at Vicenza in 169.0, 

 and died at Venice A D. 1767. He was the nephew and 

 difclpb of Francifco Pittoni, the Venetian painter, and his 

 hillorical pictures are held in confiderable efteem. There 

 are fome few etchings by tliis painter which are much valued 

 by connoifTeurs, and are marked fomctimes with his initials, 

 or at others Batifta P. V. F. and fometimes with his name 

 at full length, but we are unable to fpecify any of them. 



Antonio Luciani was a native of Venice, and born A.D. 

 1700. He ftudied painting under Jacques Piccini, though 

 he is better known as an engraver than as a painter. Luciani 

 engraved from the works of Tiepolo, Caffana, Bombelij, 

 and others, but his works are held in no very high degree of 

 eftimation, and it may therefore be fufficient to fpecify the 

 two following prints by him. The portrait of cardinal 

 Sforza Peliavicini, from Pietro Avogrado ; and that of the 

 Jefuit Tambarini, from the fame painter, in folio. 



Dominico Rofletri was born at Venice in the year 1700. 

 The prelate Giovanni Francifco Barbarigo, being very iond 

 of this artift in his youth, took him to Verona, where he 

 purfued his ftudies for fome time. He praclifed architefture, 

 as well as engraving both on copper and wood, and when fome 

 years had elapfed, and his reputation was eftablillied, Rofletti 

 was invited to DufTeldorp, by theeleftor palatine, to engrave 

 " The Triumph*of Alexander," from G. Lairefie, on twelve 

 large plates, which is become exceedingly rare, bccaufe, 

 before many impreilions had been printed, the elector had 

 the p'ates gilt. This artiil alfo engraved feveral of the 

 plates for the coUefuon of prints taken from the raoll 

 capital pictures at Venice, which was publilhed by Do- 

 menico Lovifa, and among which the following will pro. 

 bably be found moft worthy of the notice of the con- 

 noifteur. 



" Pope Alexander III. recognized by the Doge of Ve- 

 nice," after Paolo Veronefe ; " The Ambafiadors fent by 

 the Venetian Senate to the Emperor Frederic Barbaroulfa,;' 

 after the pi£lures of Carlo and Gabriel Cagliari, which are 

 preferred in the hall of the grand council chamber at Venice. 



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