. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . odel-ling. Inferior talent was displayed by her brother Adamo,probably at work soon after 1540, and apparently activetill 1585. As engravers both were perhaps influenced lessby their father than by Giorgio Ghisi, of Mantua, the realhead of this School, who probably studied originally as apupil of the elder Scultor. By earlier writers the mistakehas been made of attributing to Adamo and Diana Scultorthe family name of Ghisi. Giorgio Ghisi, il Mantovana (born at ]\Iantua in 1520,died there in 1582), has command o
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . odel-ling. Inferior talent was displayed by her brother Adamo,probably at work soon after 1540, and apparently activetill 1585. As engravers both were perhaps influenced lessby their father than by Giorgio Ghisi, of Mantua, the realhead of this School, who probably studied originally as apupil of the elder Scultor. By earlier writers the mistakehas been made of attributing to Adamo and Diana Scultorthe family name of Ghisi. Giorgio Ghisi, il Mantovana (born at ]\Iantua in 1520,died there in 1582), has command of a firm and pleasingstyle. With better success than his master he strove tounite the solidity of ]\Iarc-Antonios execution with the io8 ENGRAVING IN ITALY delicate treatment of the German Little Masters. Betweenthe engraved hnes he was accustomed to scatter a numberof little dots. Ghisi is wanting in the finer sense ofdraughtsmanship ; his heads, for instance, are often weakand inexpressive. When he engraved after Raphael orMichael Angelo, he worked with a certain coarseness of. 48. Giorgio Gliisi : itic liiith of .Meiiinon (detailj. modelling, produced by his study of Giulio Romanos workat Mantua. Raphaels Disputa and School of Athens were engraved by him in folio size, and also The LastJudgment of Michael Angelo, in a series of eleven plates,which, when joined together, form a sheet of four feet inheight. Many of his engravings were made from picturesand drawings by Giulio Romano. By far the most pleasing GIORGIO GIIISI IC9 of his works arc those in which he has given free play tohis imagination, for in this case his lack of draughtsman-ship can most readily be overlooked. One example is theplate, so pleasing in its richness of careful detail, usuallyknown as * Raphaels Dream or The Melancholy ofMichael Angelo. Ghisis collected work amounts toseventy engravings, many of them extremely large. In1550 we find him at Antwerp working for HieronymusCock, the publisher. Ghisi is on
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