Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10): Fra Giocondo to Niccolo SoggiVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10): Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
Many other Flemings have imitated the manner of Albrecht Duerer with the
greatest care and subtlety, as may be seen from their engravings, and in
particular from those of ...[20] who has engraved in little figures four
stories of the Creation of Adam, four of the lives of Abraham and of
Lot, and four others of Susannah, which are very beautiful. In like
manner, G... P...[21] has engraved the Seven Works of Mercy in seven
small round plates, eight stories taken from the Books of Kings, Regulus
placed in the barrel filled with nails, and an Artemisia, which is a
plate of great beauty. J... B...[22] has executed figures of the four
Evangelists, which are so small that it seems scarcely possible that he
could have done them; and also five other very fine plates, in the first
of which is a Virgin drawn into the grave by Death in all the freshness
of her youth, and in the second is Adam, in the third a peasant, in the
fourth a Bishop, and in the fifth a Cardinal, each, like the Virgin,
called by Death to his last account. And in some others are many Germans
going on parties of pleasure with their wives, and some beautiful and
fantastic Satyrs. By ... are plates of the four Evangelists, engraved
with great care, and no less beautiful than are twelve stories of the
Prodigal Son executed with much diligence by the hand of M.... And,
finally, Franz Floris, a painter famous in those parts, has produced a
great number of works and drawings which have since been engraved, for
the most part by Hieronymus Cock, such as ten plates of the Labours of
Hercules, a large plate with all the activities of the life of man,
another with the Horatii and Curiatii engaged in combat in the lists,
the Judgment of Solomon, and the Battle between Hercules and the
Pygmies. The same master, also, has engraved a Cain who has killed Abel,
over whose body Adam and Eve are weeping; an Abraham who is about to
sacrifice Isaac on the altar, and a vast number of other plates, so full
of variety and invention, that it is indeed marvellous to think of all
that has been done in engravings on copper and wood. Lastly, it is
enough to draw attention to the engravings of the portraits of the
Painters, Sculptors, and Architects in this our book, which were drawn
by Giorgio Vasari and his pupils, and engraved by Maestro Cristofano
...,[23] who has executed in Venice, as he still continues to do, a vast
number of works worthy of record.
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