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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    figns oi the fame Vasari ; they are in wood, and rarely done. Antonio Salamanca did put forth fome very good things. Andrea Mantegna, that admirable painter, engraved his Triumphs of C^far with great art, as like wife Baecanalia, and Sea-Gods, a Chrift taken from the crofs, his burial andrefurrettion, which be¬ ing done both in brafs and wood, were conduced with that fkill, as for the foftnefs and tendernefs of the lights, they appeared as if they had been painted m miniature. A Nor may we here omit to celebrate for the o-lorv of the fex, ]Propertia de Rossi a Florentine fculptrefs, who having cut ffupendous tilings in marble, put forth alfo fome rare things in ftampi, to oe encountred amongft the collections of the curious. And about this age, or a little after, flouriihed Martin Rota, famous for his Judgment after Michael Angelo in a fmall volume, much to be preferred to that which is commonly fold at Rome in fo many fheets 5 likewife his St. Anthony and divers more. Jacomo Palma has, befides . excellent Book of drawing, fet forth many rare peices, very much efteemed. Andrea Mantua no graved both in wood and copper: of his were The triumph of our Saviour after -f 1 t 1 an, and fome things in chiaro ofeuro after Giovanni di Bologna, and Domenico Bec- cafumi, whom but now we mentioned; alfo The Roman triumphs in imitation of Mantegna, a Lbnfius mortuus after Alexand. Casolini, &c. finally,