Barozzo da Vignola,[1] by whom definite rules, easy of comprehension, were given for the diminution or increase of every part in all the five orders of architecture, together with copperplate engravings; this is a book which has been exceedingly useful in the art, and one for which all are bound to thank the author. Many acknowledgments are in like manner due to Giovanni Cugin[2] f of Paris, for the engravings and writings which he also has sent forth on subjects connected with the study and practice of architecture.
In Rome, besides those already cited, must be mentioned Niccolo Beatricio,[3] of Lorraine, by whom many works of great merit have been executed with the burin, and who has produced numerous plates which are highly worthy of commendation. Among these are two fragments of a sarcophagus, with combats of cavalry, which this master has engraved on copper-plates, and other prints, exhibiting animals of various kinds, executed with great ability. There is also one by this artist which represents the Daughter of the Widow raised from the dead by Our Saviour Christ, which last Beatricio executed very finely from a design by the painter Girolamo Mosciano,[4] of Brescia. By the same artist is the engraving of an Annunciation, after a design by Michelagnolo; and he likewise engraved the Navicella of Mosaic executed by Giotto, in the Portico of San Pietro[5]
From Venice also many fine plates on wood and copper have been brought; numerous landscapes engraved on wood by Titian, after his own works for example; among others, a Birth of Christ, a, figure of San Jeronimo, and one of San Francesco. In copper there are the Tantalus, the
- ↑ Called Da Vignola, from his birth-place in the territory of Modena. Bom 1507, died 1575, and is considered one of the lawgivers of modem architectural art in Italy. See Quatremere de Quincey, Dictionnaire Historique d’Architecture, vol. i. p. 160.
- ↑ Probably Jean Cousin, the author of the Livre de Perspective, Paris, 1560, and of the Livre de Portraicture avec figures en hois, Paris, 1593.
- ↑ Or Beautrizet; bom at Luneville towards 1567. See Zani, as before cited.
- ↑ Girolamo Moretto, or Moreto, called also Girolamo Bresciano; not to be confounded with Girolamo Muziano of Acquafredda, who is also occasionally called Il Bresciano, or Brescianino, as well as Girolamo de’ Paesi, (of the Landscapes).— Ed. Flor. 1832 -8.
- ↑ Engraved in the Roma Sotterranea, &c., tom. i. p. 193.— Ibid.
