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
From Venice, likewise, have come many most beautiful engravings on wood
and on copper; on wood, after Tiziano, many landscapes, a Nativity of
Christ, a S. Jerome, and a S. Francis; and on copper the Tantalus, the
Adonis, and many other plates, which have been engraved by Giulio
Bonasone of Bologna, together with some others by Raffaello, by Giulio
Romano, by Parmigiano, and by all the other masters whose drawings he
has been able to obtain. And Battista Franco, a painter of Venice, has
engraved, partly with the burin and partly with aquafortis, many works
by the hands of various masters, such as the Nativity of Christ, the
Adoration of the Magi, the Preaching of S. Peter, some plates from the
Acts of the Apostles, and many stories from the Old Testament. So far,
indeed, has this practice of making prints been carried, that those who
make a profession of it keep draughtsmen continually employed in copying
every beautiful work as it appears, and put it into prints. Wherefore
there came from France, after the death of Rosso, engravings of all the
work by his hand that could be found, such as Clelia with the Sabine
women passing the river; some masks after the manner of the Fates,
executed for King Francis; a bizarre Annunciation; a Dance of ten women;
and King Francis advancing alone into the Temple of Jupiter, leaving
behind him Ignorance and other similar figures, which were executed
during the lifetime of Rosso by the copper-plate engraver Renato.[18]
And many more have been drawn and engraved since Rosso's death; among
many other works, all the stories of Ulysses, and, to say nothing of the
rest, vases, chandeliers, candelabra, salt-cellars, and a vast number of
other suchlike things made in silver after designs of Rosso.
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