ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



I*jaz7etta, according to Huber, but, according to Strutt, 

 the latter are from his own dei'igns. 



I'iirlotts Hyiorka! Suljfds. — " Chrift expiring on the 

 Crois," with the effect of r.ight ; " Rehgaoii and Hcrcfy," 

 an allegory, both from Piazzetta ; "A Holy Family," from 

 Pietro Long*!, in large folio ; fe\"CTi folio upright plates 

 of the facrameiits ; fix large folio plates reprefenting chaccs 

 in the neighbourhood of Venice, from the fame mailer ; 

 ♦' St. Peter deiivjred from Prifon by an Angel," after Ef- 

 pagiioLttc) ; " The Martyrdom of St. Birthulonicw," from 

 the fame itiafter, both iu folio, for the Drefden gallery ; 

 " St. Catlierinc of Sienna," after J. B. Tiopolo ; " The 

 Penitent Magdalen," from the fame, for the Drcfden gal- 

 lery ; " The drunken King," after D. Te;.-icrs ; and two 

 rudic fubjeC'ts, after the fame painter, (the Shoe-maker, in- 

 fcribed " Ne futor ultra crepidarn," and the Miher, in- 

 fcribed " Sud:it rotator fua forte tontentus,") all in large 

 folio. 



Comte Pietro dc Rotari was born of a noble family at 

 Verona in the year 170;, and having a natural turn for the 

 Cue art.s, together with liie means of indulging it, became 

 fiicceffively the pupil of Robert van Audenarde and An- 

 tonio Balelira. He fludied with commendable affiduiiy, 

 and travelled iu queil of improve.Tient, or of diftindion as an 

 arti:1, to Ve:i:ce and to Iv<nne, and afterwards to Vienna, 

 Dreiden, and Peten'burg, in the latter of which cities, after 

 a relldence of eight years, he ended his career in 1764. 



His engravings confill of (light, fpirited, painter-like etch- 

 ings, which are mi;ch fought after by the curious, and are exe- 

 cuted frojn his own comp»)fit)ons, or from thofe of his mailer, 

 BaleRra. From among thefe, the following will probably 

 he found moll wortliy of feleftion. The portrait of Filippo 

 Baldinucci writing ; " St, Francis adoring the Crucifix," 

 a middle-fized upright oval, from his own compoiition ; 

 *' Tlie Educatioii of the Holy V'irgin," of the fame fize ; 

 tlic head of an old man wi:h a beard. Another head of an 

 old ir.an looking upwards, both in 8vo. ; " Tlie Three 

 Angels entertained by Abi;;ham ;" " David with the Head 

 of Goliali ;" " .St. Jerome ;" and " The Interview between 

 Venus and Eneas," all of 4to. fi/.e ; aiid, of fomewhat larger 

 dimenfions, three monks of the order of St. Francis, after 

 Baleilra. The count alfo arrived at fome eminence as a 

 painter of portraits and hillory. 



David Antonio Foflato v.-as born at Morco, a bailiwick 

 of Luggaris, in S .". itzerland, in the year 170S ; but refided 

 at Venice with an uncle, who was a merchant, and wiflicd 

 Foflato to become one a'fo, but finding he had more talle 

 for the ar;s, he gave up this defign, and placed him under 

 Vincent Mariotti, a good defigner of architeclure, and a maf- 

 ter in perfpeilive, with whom he .Tiade great progrefs. He 

 afterwards travelled to Vienna with Daniel Gran, imder 

 whom he executed fome very fine pictures, particu- 

 larly a very fuperb ceihng for the Imperial library. He 

 worked with great fuccefs, both in oil and frefco, in mod 

 of the towns of Rome and Germany ; an<l likewife amufed 

 himfeli with the point. Among hi.s bell production^ in that 

 way, the foilowing may be reckoned. A fet of twenty- 

 four folio Ijndfcapes of Venice and its environs, from M. 

 Kicci, with a dedication to count Algarotti; " Diana and Ca- 

 Ifllo," from Soiimere ; " The Family of Darius before 

 Alexander," from P. Veronefe; ".'upiter thundering agaiiill 

 the Vices," from tlie ceiling of the council chamber ; «' The 

 Servant of Abraham with Rebecca," half fi'^ures, from 

 Ant. Bvllucci ; and " The Vocation of St. Peter to the 

 Apollolae," from the fame painter, all of folio dimenfions. 



George Folfdto was born A. 1). 1710, and was probably 

 ci the fame fami y with the preceding ariill.. We are igno- 



rant of whom he was the pupil ; but lie worked fome tiin* 

 at Milan, and from thence went to Venice, where he fet- 

 tled. 



He etched the edifices which the celebrated architect 

 Palladio erefted at Padua, \'icen/.a, and other towns and 

 cities of Italy, which was publiflied by Pafinelli at Veiiiee, 

 during the years 1740 and 1745, '" I'^fcnch and Italian, of 

 large folio fize. The etchings are well executed, and do 

 honour to the talle and intelligence of our artill. 



Jacques Lconardis was born at Parma A. D. 17 1 2. He 

 learned the rudiments of art of M. Benville, (a portrait 

 painter,) and J. B. Tiepolo. He engraved from the moll 

 celebrated pictures in Venice, and, with commendable re- 

 gard to tlie public deficiencies, commonly made choice of 

 thofe which had not already been engraved ; though he ge- 

 nerally fucceeded fo well in copying the charaders and 

 cffeds of his originals, that he need not to have been either 

 afraid or afliamed of following other engravers, by working 

 after the faitje pidures. The bell of his produdions are, 

 " Cnpids playing," after Julio Carpioni ; " The Rejoicing, 

 of Silenus," from the fame painter ; " Neptune in a Car 

 drawn by Tritons," from Seb. Conca ; " The Rape of 

 Europa," from the fame mailer ; two rullic fiibjeds, one 

 reprefenting " A Villjige Fair ;" and the other " A Crowd, 

 of Beggars at the Gate of a Town," from J. M. Crefpi ;. 

 two comic fubjeds reprefenting " The Divcrfions of the- 

 Carnival at Venice," from Tiepolo ; " The Go'den Calf,"" 

 from Tintoret ; and " The Lalt Judgment," from the fa.ue- 

 mafler, all of large f.Jio fi/e. 



Michael Soiello was born in Spain, but in what year- 

 is uncertain. He fettled at Rome A.D. 1750, and lludied 

 engraving under Giacomo Fiey, (for an account of whom 

 fee Gehm.-vX School of Engraving,) and v;orked very, much 

 in the ityie of that very dillinguifiied mailer.. The moll 

 confiderable work we have by Sorel'o is a fet of eight prints, . 

 engraved from the tapeilry of the Vatican, after Raphael ;, 

 he likewife engraved, after other Italian malters, feveral 

 meritorious plates for the Mufeum Florentinura. From the 

 mafs of his works, the collector may, with advantage, feled 

 good impreffions of the following, for his Italian port- 

 folio:— "The Nativity,'" where a fliepherd, accompanied' 

 by his dog, is among the principal figures, fro.-n Cortf; 

 " The Purification of the Virgin ;" and "St. Peter pro- 

 claimed Chief of the Church," from Ciirlo M.ratti, all in 

 large folio; and "The Defcent of Chrill into Hell," 

 in fmall folio ; " The Refurredion," dedicated to Antonio 

 Colona ; " The Difciples at Emaus," ' in large folio ; 

 " Ciirill rcprefented as a Gardener," or, the "Noli me 

 Tangcre;" " The Converfion of St. Paul," from C. Ma- 

 ratti ; the frontifpiece for the Monologium Grarcorum, afrer 

 Seb. Conca; and an "Annunciation of the blelTed Virgin," 

 from Felife de Callro, (a Spanilh painter,) both in large 

 foho. 



Paul Pilaja, or Pilaia, was a native of Italy, and ap- 

 pears to have been born about tlie year 1718. The cir- 

 cumllances of his life have not been recorded, but he feems 

 to have worked at Rome. He engraved the prints for a 

 book entitled " Storia di Volfcna," by the Abbf Adami, 

 vvitli the portrait of the author, aiier the Cavalier Odam ; 

 which book, according to Gandellini, was printed at Rome 

 in the year 17.?7. He alfo engraved, in fuUo, the Uatuc of 

 the prophet Elias, from Aug.. Coriiachini, ereded at St. 

 Peter's cathedral; the portrait of pope Benedict XIII. 

 from J. B. Bnighi, a Roman painter ; " The Martyrdom 

 of the Capuchin St. Fedele da Simaringa," from Seb. 

 Conca, both of folio fize ; " The Miracle performed by 

 St. Thoribio, archbithop of Lima,, while preaching to the 



