Notices of engravers and their works, the commencement of a dictionary which it is not intended to continue - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...by marbles of different shades, let in, and the outlines and deeper shadows by graved excavations filled with black, so as to give them the appearance of immense drawings, outlined and hatched with a pen and washed with bistre. After Giovanni Bologna. 6. Christ Led Away To Be Crucified, And Pilate Washing His Hands: from a basso-relievo; in two pieces joined. I. 25J. A. 17. Upon a shield, held by a soldier on the right: ' Giaubologna Scolp. Andrea Andriano lo'ntagliatore A Giovambatista Deti Gentil'huomo Fiorentino.' On the left, upon the step of Pilate's throne, is the date Mdxxxv, in gothic characters. This piece is printed from four blocks. (B. p. 41. No. 19.) 7. The Rape Of One Of The Sabine Women; from a celebrated group of VOL. I. P three figures in marble, existing at Florence; engraved in three different points of view; h. 18. w. 8. each with a dedication. (a) The body of the woman is seen in front. At bottom, on the left: 'Raptam Sabinam a Joa. Bolog. marm. excnlptam Andreas Andreanus Mant. inci. atque Equiti Nice. Gaddio dicavit. M.d.lxxxiiii. Flor.' From four blocks.----(b) The lower part of the woman is seen in a back view. At bottom, on the right: ' Raptam Sabinam a Io. Bolog. marm. excul. Andreas Andreanus Man«, incisit, atq. Bernardum Vechiettum dicavit anno M.d.lxxxiiii. From four block, (c) The figures nearly in the same point of view as in the last. At bottom on the right: ' Hoc opus exculpsit Io. Bologna. Andreas Andreanus insisit, atq. dicavit. Ad Illustriss. et Eccel. Ioannem Medic.' Printed from two blocks only; the shadows in this piece being entirely produced by bold hatchings. (B. pp. 93-4. Nos. 1--3.) 8. The Rape Of The Sabines; from a basso-relievo in bronze upon the pedestal of the above group; in six pieces, three at top, a...
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