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GIOVANNI ANTONIO DA BRESCIA. [chap. vii.
the fifteenth volume of his work, p. 11. It is finished in a stiff,
tasteless manner of engraving, with hatchings crossing each other in
various directions, and was probably copied from a design of Raf-
faello. It bears so exact a resemblance of style to the following
piece, marked with the initials of Gio. Ant. da Brescia, as well
as to some others, as to leave, I think, not the smallest doubt
that it was executed by his hand. It measures eleven inches in
width, by six inches and three-quarters in height.
The Maccabees bringing Presents to Solomon.
This piece was probably engraved by Gio. Antonio from a
sketch which had been recently made by some artist of Lombardy,
during his stay at Rome; and represents, with a few trifling-
alterations, one of the Bible histories painted from the designs of
Raffaello in the Loggia of the Vatican. But although the artist
has copied the figures with sufficient accuracy, he has changed the
subject, which, in the original, is no other than the meeting of
Abraham and Melchisedec. (No. 13, in the Bible Histories, by
Aquila and Fantetti.) The two baskets containing loaves are
changed into vases full of money, and there is no landscape in the
back-ground. The composition, moreover, is reversed. At the top
of the print is this inscription : Tesoro presetato al Re Salomon dali
machabei. e questo e depito "i camera del. S. papa. At the bottom of
the print, towards the left, are the letters R. V. with, beneath
them, the mark of the artist, thus: <b AW- This engraving-
measures ten inches and a quarter in width, by seven inches and a
half in height.
The Nativity.
On the left of the print, the Madonna is represented on her
knees, adoring the infant Jesus, who is lying asleep on a drapery
extended on the ground. Towards the right, Joseph appears, also
GIOVANNI ANTONIO DA BRESCIA. [chap. vii.
the fifteenth volume of his work, p. 11. It is finished in a stiff,
tasteless manner of engraving, with hatchings crossing each other in
various directions, and was probably copied from a design of Raf-
faello. It bears so exact a resemblance of style to the following
piece, marked with the initials of Gio. Ant. da Brescia, as well
as to some others, as to leave, I think, not the smallest doubt
that it was executed by his hand. It measures eleven inches in
width, by six inches and three-quarters in height.
The Maccabees bringing Presents to Solomon.
This piece was probably engraved by Gio. Antonio from a
sketch which had been recently made by some artist of Lombardy,
during his stay at Rome; and represents, with a few trifling-
alterations, one of the Bible histories painted from the designs of
Raffaello in the Loggia of the Vatican. But although the artist
has copied the figures with sufficient accuracy, he has changed the
subject, which, in the original, is no other than the meeting of
Abraham and Melchisedec. (No. 13, in the Bible Histories, by
Aquila and Fantetti.) The two baskets containing loaves are
changed into vases full of money, and there is no landscape in the
back-ground. The composition, moreover, is reversed. At the top
of the print is this inscription : Tesoro presetato al Re Salomon dali
machabei. e questo e depito "i camera del. S. papa. At the bottom of
the print, towards the left, are the letters R. V. with, beneath
them, the mark of the artist, thus: <b AW- This engraving-
measures ten inches and a quarter in width, by seven inches and a
half in height.
The Nativity.
On the left of the print, the Madonna is represented on her
knees, adoring the infant Jesus, who is lying asleep on a drapery
extended on the ground. Towards the right, Joseph appears, also