Sculptura: or, the history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by his Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise / John Evelyn.

  • John Evelyn
Date:
1755
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Credit: Sculptura: or, the history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by his Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise / John Evelyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iBajJb Relievos •, with many things that Raphael had defigned for the Corridor of the Vatican, and which were afterward retouched by Tomaso Bar lac chi. We will not contaminate this dif- courfe, with thofe Tweniy vile defigns of G iulio cut by M. Antonio, and celebrated with the impure verfes of Peter Aretino, by which he fo difhonour- ed this excellent art, as well as himfelf; becaufe it cieferved a feverer animadverfion and chaftifement than was infli&ed upon him for it: though, to commute for this extravagancy, he publifhed T'he martyrdom of St. Laurence ; in which he alfo reiormed thofe defig-ns of Baccio Bandinelli, to the O , great reputation of the art ot Chalcography. About the fame time flourifhed Giovanni Bat¬ tista Mantuano, difcipleof GiulioRomano; who publifhed a Adadona ; his Armed Mars and Ve¬ nus ; The burning of Troy, an extraordinary peice 5 (his prints are ufually figned I. B. M.) alfo his Three fleets of battles, cut by fome other hand ; A phyfician applying of cupping glaffes to a woman; Chrifls journey into Aigypt ♦, Romulus and Remus ; the ftories of Pluto, Jupiter, and Neptune ; The miferies of imprifonment •, interview of the Armies of Scipio and Hannibal; St. John Baptift? s nativity, cut by Sebaltiano de Reggio; all alter Giulio Ro¬ mano. Giorgio Mantuano fet forth the Facciata of the pope’s chapel; Michael AngeloV judgment•> St. Peter's martyrdom •, The converjion of St. Paul; &c. And fome plates were fent abroad about the year mdxxx, eaten with,aqua fords after Parme¬ san 0. For, as [ab cere, deventum ad tabulas cera- E 2 - tas]