GE 
sia L great hippie as artifts, “Tagliacarne probably took 
yf in engraving carnelians, 
i Sa unaiet Car 
The lift of the Telia engravers of the fifteenth century is 
much more numerous; this is the moft flourifhing period of 
modern glyptic art, and ied that age ie pa fevera 
worthy of the ancient pee to. whom t ae das thei . 
models. The principal am em are o-Mar ia 
Pefcia, in Tufcany, a eae admirer of re ae, and 
their faithful imitator. This is the artift whom Von Murr 
believes to have executed the celebrated feal of Michael An- 
ex a defign of Michael Ragdlo for 
anil Hippolito de “Medici. - Collet owns a magnifi- 
cent cameo, the work of this 
e Ca- me 
binet of Aoxtiegatties of the ee at + Paris, 1 patel feveral of 
his works. One among them reprefents a battle, and on one 
of the colours we fee the letters O. P.N.S. Opus Naflarii 
di aes in 1547.—Giovanni Giacopo Ca- 
raglio of Verona, engraver of {tones, medals, and of copper 
p- 46.) has publifhed his portrait. 
the moft ce al and laborious artifts in his depart- 
» od graved various fubje€ts taken from an 
hiftory; he died in —Ale Cefari, furna 
of him a bea 
ing of France inca o da Tre m. the firft 
engraving on diaomnd is attributed. The cabinet of Anti- 
quities at Paris pofleffes of this mafter the dale at -of 
Philip and Don Carlns on a Brazil topaze. 
ini 589. 2 elaine di Birague, whois likewife faid to hae 
executed engravings on diamond.—Annibale Fontana, 
v era s on rock cryftal.—Santa Croce, 
called Pippo, originally a fimple fhepherd, ee ee on 
eherry es the elicate bas-reliefs. ippo Doria, 
anda 
who so with him in ag vcs of ‘Urbino, placed him. vane 
gatG CHOd ——. —Ant 
een ; died at cay in I 5845 —and Flaminio Natalis, in 
hano edo and afew more. For the confervation of the 
art in that century, we are principally indebted to Fer dinand 
II., who continued and 
in the a 
tion of ancient letters: his works are marke 
@AABIOY TOY ZIPAETOY. Others worthy to be aaiaed 
are the Coftangis, Giovanni, Tomafoy as Carlo his fon; 
M 
M S$. 
Domenico Landi; Francefco , Chinghis Jeronimo Roffi ; Ste- 
fano Paffalia; Francefco Borghighiani ;. Felice Bamabes, 
ere Torricellis ; Lorenzo Mafini. hofe gem engravers 
o at prefent cultivate their art with greateft fuccefs, are 
Sine Santarelli, age and Capperoni; at Naples, Sign. 
Rega, an artift, f whofe u€tions may be com~ 
pared with thofe of pares There is alfo a female artift 
of note in city, ene i of Rome. 
he German engravers of gems have always maintained 
the firft a after thofe. of ay The oldeit German en- 
Damel Engelha 1G 
Taver on ftone es is 
e than. arme ae crefts. hates Schwaiger has 
eh called the ara rgoteles, but none of his en- 
i he. is a po rtrait oe = ae 
the yea 
engravings.—Mar a good painter, but of whofe 
engravings on {tones Mariette is far from {peaking favor- 
- fact is, T'ufcher exercifed that art merely ai as 
Peas: ; ie was a native of Brixen i in Ty rrol, and has pro- 
duced fome engravings of merit.—John Pichler, who is 
elafied by Millin with the Italian fchool of engravers, be~ 
caufe he {pent a preat part of his life, and is faid to: have 
ormed his tafte in Italy, is ies aaa one of the greateft 
glyptic artitts of modern ti . “ye uced a Bess 
ev me re) 
may be com- 
eae ak the more ie ear of ace en 
Lorenz Natter, a native of Suabia; his numerous works. 
befpeak a refined tafte, and are eeu with the greateft 
delicacy and corre€tnefs in the defign. He was, at the fame 
time, a great proficient in the theory of his art, and his 
“ Traité de la Méthode Antique de Graver en Pierres Fine,’” 
is the only work we ear on this interefting fubje@. He 
died in 1496 t from Dantzick, a 
fettled in Rome at a tim 
occafioned 
but Rafpe obferves that it 18, or was, a general cuftom among 
Italian artifts, to call each other by their chriflian names, or 
by the name of their country. He was a pupil of Natter. 
Other modern German engravers are Hubner of Drefden; — 
Lerter, and Aaron Wolf; the laft-mentioned artift, a native 
of oe is of the Jewifh perfuafion, and pene at 
Leghorn; we a Leda which has rendered his 
name celebrate 
ng the Englith — of gems, a se thofe 
of more modern times, there are feveral who hav uired: 
cna Ieee by their on fach as Dem Waa and 
a Burch and a Marchant have attained to a degree of excel- 
lence ah would have been acknowledged and refpe&ted in 
the beft periods of. ancient art. In general, however, the: 
number of good engravers on ftones has not been very great 
in this ark 
rit, and perhaps the only engraver of fome note in 
Bac. after Matteo de Naffaro had in the time of Francis I. 
introduced into that country the tafte : the gl 
oldoré, -who — at the end of ‘the 
the reign of Lou J e eae 
e engraved by this artift ; but his heads are remarkable for 
their elegance, the Gennes with which they are executed, and 
their perfeét refemblance ta the originals, It ig faid, that 
queen: 
