Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista de

Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri (1526–1597), an Italian engraver, was born at Villa Lagarina and died at Rome. His style of engraving resembles that of Enea Vico. Many of his plates are copies after the great Italian masters; they are etched, and finished with the graver. He was very laborious, and his plates number nearly 380. The following are those most worthy of notice. The Frontispiece, and Heads of the Popes, for the Vite de' Pontifici. Thirty-three plates of the Ruins of Rome; after Dossio. 1579. Fifty-eight plates of the Ancient statues of Rome Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae. 1561 A series of plates entitled Beati Apollinaris Martyris primi Ravennatum episcopi Res gestae; after N. Circignani. 1586. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophae; after the same. Christ among the Doctors; supposed to be from his own design. The Last Supper; the same. The Image of the Virgin of Loreto. 1566. The House of Loreto, and the Miracles wrought there. 1569. The Jubilee in 1585, with a view of the old Church of St. Peter's. A Sea-fight against the Turks; for Chacon's Historia utriusque Belli Dacici, 1576. The Virgin, called 'Le Silence' ; after Michelangelo. The Dead Christ in the lap of the Virgin; after...