wise engraved a book containing fishes of every kind; and furthermore there have by their means been published the Phaeton, the Tityus, and the Ganymede, the Archers, the Bacchanalia, the Dream, the Pieta, and the Crucifix, all made by Michelagnolo for the Marchioness of Pescara, with the four Prophets of the chapel, and other paintings and designs, some of which were however so badly engraved and printed that I think it better to be silent respecting the names of such engravers and printers.
But I will not omit to mention that the above-named Antonio Lanferri, with Tommaso Barlacchi,[1] and others, have kept numerous persons employed, principally young men, in the engraving of designs from the hands of innumerable masters, nay, the amount of works thus produced has been such that it were better to avoid the mention thereof, lest we be found too prolix, seeing that in this manner there have been sent forth, to say nothing of other matters, arabesques, ancient temples, cornices, capitals, pedestals, and other things of similar kind, in every size and all manners; insomuch that the architect Sebastiano Serlio of Bologna, seeing everything thus treated in the worst manner and reduced to so grievous a plight, was moved to compassion, and from love to his art he has engraved plates in wood and copper, making two books relating to architecture, wherein, among other things, there are thirty gates and doors in the rustic manner, with twenty portraits of more ornate and elaborate architecture; this book has been dedicated by Sebastiano to Henry king of Fa nee.
In like manner with Serlio, Antonio Labbaco[2] has published all the antiquities and remarkable edifices of Rome, with their proportions given after exact measurements; they are engraved also in a very good and delicate manner by
——————— Perugino.[3] Nor less efficient have been the services
rendered to art in this matter, by the architect Jacopo
- ↑ Barlacchi was like Lafrery, a buyer and seller of engravings.
- ↑ Or L’Abacco, this architect was a disciple of Antonio da San Gallo; he subscribes himself ‘‘ Antonio, alias Abacco.” Further mention is made of him in the following life.
- ↑ The name of this Perugian engraver has not before appeared, remark the Italian and Gernurn commentators. There was a painter called Domenico Perugino, who died at Rome in 1590, being then seventy years old. The goldsmith Polidoro Perugino lived about 1550.
