Satyrs namely, giving drink to the god Bacchus, with a Leda drawing the arrows from the quiver of Cupid, Susannah in the Bath, and many others, some taken from the designs of Rosso, and some from those of Francesco Bologna Primaticcio, now Abbot of San Martino in France. To the latter belong the Judgment of Paris, Abraham about to sacrifice his son Isaac, Our Saviour Christ espousing Santa Caterina, Jupiter changing Calisto into a Bear, the Council of the Gods, Penelope weaving and surrounded by her women, and a vast number of other subjects, some in wood-cuts, and some on copper-plates. So large an amount of practice had the effect of sharpening the wits of engravers to such an extent, that smaller figures were executed in a manner more delicate than words could express, insomuch that it would not be possible to bring them to a higher pefection of finish. Who, for example, could behold without surprise and admiration, the works of Francesco Marcolini[1] of Forli? His book, entitled “The Garden of Thoughts,” among others, with engravings on wood, and the Globe of the Heavens, with his own portrait, after a design by Guiseppe Porta da Castelnuovo della Garfagnana:[2] in this book many fanciful objects are represented, such as Fate, Envy, Calumny, Timidity, Praise, and many other of similar kind, which have been held to be very fine. Neither are the figures which Gabriel Giolito, the printer of books, inserted in the Orlando Furioso, to be considered unworthy of commendation, seeing that they were executed in a very good manner of engraving; as were also the eleven large plates of anatomical studies which Andrea Vessalio engraved after the designs of Giovanni di Calcare,[3] a most excellent
- ↑ Temanza, Vita del Sansovino, has the following passage with respect to this engraver: “Although but a bookseller, his genius suggested the form of a bridge to be erected at Murano, to which Sansovino, when consulted, could not refuse his admiration.” Originally a printer at Venice, Marcolini afterwards settled in Verona.
- ↑ Garfagnino, called also Giuseppe del Salviati, from having been a disciple of Cecchin Salviati.
- ↑ Or Jan Kalcker, a successful imitator of Titian and Raphael,—Ed. Flor. 1832-8.
ciple of Raphael, and called Il Fattore. Luca accompanied Rosso to France, and thence crossed into England, where the biographers lose all trace of him. A fine Madonna by this artist, much in the manner of the school of Raphael, is in the possession of the Duke of Sutherland.
