titia, the Mufes, Apollo, Parnaffus, the Poets, Æneas and Anchifes, the famous Galatea, all of them after RAPHAEL alfo The three theological virtues, and Four moral; Pax; Chrift and the twelve; feveral Madonas; St. Hierome; Tobit; St. Jo. Baptist; and divers other faints; befides many prints after the cartoons of RAPHAEL, which had been defigned to be wrought in tapestry and arras, as the stories of St. Peter, Paul, Stephen, John, St. Catharine; and fundry heads to the life, &c. efpecially that incomparable one of Pietro Aretino the poet. Some things likewife being sent by ALBERT DURER out of Germany to RAPHAEL, were, upon his recommendation, afterwards cut by M. ANTONIO, together with The innocents, A canaculum, and St.. Cecilia's martyrdom, of RAPHAEL's invention. Then he published his Twelve apostles in little; and divers faints for the help of painters, as St. Hierom'; The naked woman and the lion, after RAPHAEL; Aurora; and from the antique, the Three graces.

MARCO DI RAVENNA was one of ANTONIO'S scholars, who had also, together with AUGUSTINO VENETIANO, the honour to dignify his gravings with RAPHAEL's cypher; though the latter often ufed A. V. I. his own initial letters. Of both their cutting are A Madona, with AChriftus mortuus; and in a large fheet The B. Virgin praying; and A nativity in great alfo: The metamorphofis of Lycaon; A perfumer; Alexander magnus and Roxana; A cana domini; The annunciation; all defigned by RAPHAEL. Befides these were fet forth two ftories of The marriage of Pfyche; and indeed there was hardly any thing which ever RAPHAEL either painted or defigned,

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defigned, but what was graven by one or both of thefe workmen befides divers other things after GIULIO ROMANO, viz. all that he painted in RAPHAEL'S lodge, or gallery in the vatican, fome whereof are figned with M. R. and others with A. V. to fhew they had been imitated by others, as was The creation The facrifice of Cain and Abel; Noah; Abraham; The paffage over the red fea; The promulgation of the law; The fall of manna; David and Goliah; which alfo M. ANTONIO had publifhed before; as likewife The temple of Solomon; his Judg ment on the harlots The queen of Sheba's vifit; and many other hiftories collected out of the Old Testa ment; all which were published before RAPHAEL'S decease. For after that, AUGUSTINO wrought with BACCIO BANDINELLI, a fculptor of Florence, who caufed him to grave his Antonius and Cleopatra, very rare things; with divers other defigns, as The laughter of the innocents, divers Nudities, and Clad figures; not to omit thofe excellent and incomparable drawings and paintings of ANDREA DEL SARTO after which he graved, though in the Chriftus mortuus not altogether fucceeding fo well as had been wifhed.

But to come again to MARCO ANTONIO, because there is not a paper of his to be loft. After RAPHAEL's death, did GIULIO ROMANO publish fome of his own defigns in print: I fay, after his death; for before, though he were an excellent painter, yet durft he never take the boldness upon him. Such were The duel of borfes; A Venus, which he had formerly painted; The penance of Mary Magdalen; the Four evangelifts; and fome Baffo

Baffo Relieves with many things that RAPHAEL had defigned for the Corridor of the Vatican, and which were afterward retouched by TOMASO BARLACCHI. We will not contaminate this difcourse, with thofe Twenty vile defigns of GIULIO cut by M. ANTONIO, and celebrated with the impure verses of Peter Aretino, by which he fo difhonoured this excellent art, as well as himself; because it deferved a feverer animadverfion and chastisement than was inflicted upon him for it: though, to commute for this extravagancy, he published The martyrdom of St. Laurence; in which he also reformed those designs of BACCIO BANDINELLI, to the great reputation of the art of CHALCOGRAPHY.

About the fame time flourished GIOVANNI BAT TISTA MANTUANO, difciple of GIULIO ROMANO; who published a Madona, his Armed Mars and Ves nus; The burning of Troy, an extraordinary peice; (his prints are ufually figned I. B. M.) alfo his Three sheets of battles, cut by fome other hand; A physician applying of cupping glasses to a woman; Christ's journey into Egypt; Romulus and Remus the ftories of Pluto, Jupiter, and Neptune; The miferies of imprisonment; interview of the Armies of Scipio and Hannibal; St. John Baptist's nativity, cut by Sebaftiano de Reggio; all after GIULIO RO

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GIORGIO MANTUANO fet forth the Facciata of the pope's chapel, MICHAEL ANGELO's judgment; St. Peter's martyrdom; The converfion of St. Paul; &c. And fome plates were fent abroad about the year MDXXX, eaten with aqua fortis after PARMEFor, as [ab are, deventum ad tabulas cera

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tas] brafs was fucceeded by waxed tables," in writing, the use of the palimpfeftus, table books, [plumba lamella] "leaden plates," and the like; fo happened it also in this art of CHALCOGRAPHY; and etching with corrofive waters began by fomo to be attempted with laudable fuccefs, as in this recital we shall frequently have occafion to remember. But, whether thofe fymeters and blades brought us from Damafcus, and out of Syria, and wrought with thefe ftrong waters, might give any light to this expeditious and ufeful invention, we are not yet informed; and the effect was fufficiently obvious, after that of the Burin had been well confidered.

UGO DA CARPI did things in ftamp, which appeared as tender as any drawings, and in a new way of chiaro ofcuro, or mezzo-tinto, by the help of two plates exactly counter-calked; one ferving for the fhadow, the other for the heightening. And of this he published A Sybil after RAPHAEL; which fucceeded fo rarely well, that he improved the curiofity to three colours; as his Æneas and Anchifes, Defcent from the cross, ftory of Simon Magus, a David after the fame URBIN, and a Venus, do tef tify. This occafioned many others to imitate him; as, in particular,

BALDASSARE PERUZZI, who graved the Hercules, Parnaffus and Mufes; and FRANCISCO PARMEGIANO, who having fet out Diogenes in this guife, a very rare print, inftructed ANTONIO DI TRENTO in the art, who publifhed his Peter and Paul in chiaro ofcuro; The Tyburtine Sybil; and A Madona. But none was there who exceeded thofe

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of BECCAFUMI; efpecially, his Two apostles in wood, and The alchemist in aqua fortis.

FRANCISCO PARMEGIANO (whom we already mentioned) may be efteemed for one of the firft that brought the ufe of aqua fortis into reputation; fo tender and graceful were fome of his etchings, as appears in that rare Defcent of the cross, Nativity, and feveral other pieces.

BAPTISTA VICENTINO, and DEL MORO fet forth many curious Landschapes.

GIROLAMO Cocu The liberal sciences, &c. GIACOMO DEL CAVAGLIO Cut many things after Rosso FIORENTINO, as The metamorphofis of Saturn into a borfe; The rape of Proferpine; Antoninus and the fwan; fome of the Herculean labours; a book of the Gods and their transformations, whereof part are after PERINO DEL VAGA; alfo The rape of the Sabines, an incomparable print, had it been perfect; but the city of Rome happening at that time to be in fome diforder, the plates were loft. He graved likewife for PARMEGIANO The efpoufals of our lady, and A rare nativity after TITIAN; not to conceal his admirable talent in cutting of onyxes, chrystals, and other estimable ftones.

ENEAS VICO DE PARMA engraved The rape of Helena after old Rosso; AVulcan with fome Cupids about him; Leda after MICH. ANGELO; The annunciation defigned by TITIAN; the ftory of Judith; the portrait of Cofmo di Medicis, &c. alfo the Contest 'twixt Cupid and Apollo before the Gods; The converfion of St. Paul in great, a very rare stamp; The head of Giovanni di Medicis; Charles the V; and fome rare medals which are extant in the hands of