Psyche, which Raphael had executed some short time previously. Fiually, Agostino and Marco between them engraved almost all the works ever painted or designed by Raphael, and printed impressions of the same; they also executed many of the pictures which had been painted by Giulio Romano under the direction of his master; and ultimately, when there remained scarcely any work of Raphael which had not been engraved by their hands, they made engravings from the pictures which Giulio had painted in the loggie after the designs of Raphael.
P'here are still some of the first plates with the signature M. R., for Marco Ravignano, and others with that of A. Y., for Agostino Yeneziano; from which it is clearly apparent that other masters have engraved after them; as, for example, that of the Creation of the World, the Calling into Life of the different Animals, the Sacrifice of Cain and Abel, the Death of the latter, Abraham about to Sacrifice
- his son Isaac, the Ark of Noah, the Deluge, and the Animals leaving the Ark, the Passage of the Red Sea, the
Delivery of the Laws to Ikoses on Mount Sinai, the Distribution of the Manna, David slaying Goliah, which had before been engraved by Marcantonio. The Building of the Temple by Solomon, the Judgment of the latter between the two Mothers, the Yisit of the Queen of Sheba, with subjects taken from the New Testament, such as the Birth and Resurrection of Christ, and the Descent of the Holy Spirit, all which were engraved during the lifetime of Raphael.
After the death of that master, Marco and Agostino separated, when the latter was retained by the sculptor Baccio Bandinelli, who caused him to engrave a study of anatomy, after a design which Bandinelli had made, from meagre and dried up figures and bones of the dead. He also made him execute a Cleopatra soon after having completed the anatomical study; and both these plates were accounted very good ones. Encouraged by this success, Baccio designed and caused Agostino to engrave a large plate, of greater size indeed than any that had ever been executed at that time, and representing numerous women all clothed, with nude figures of men, who are destroying the innocent babes, by command of King Herod.
