Giovanni Battista De'cavalieri

His style of engraving resembles that of Aeneas 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 the same.
• The Conversion of St. Paul; after the same.
• The Martyrdom of St. Peter; after the same.
• The Animals coming out of the Ark; after Raphael.
• Moses showing the Tables of the Law; after the same.
• The Miracle of the Loaves; after the same.
• Christ appearing to St. Peter; after the same.
• The Battle of Constantino with Maxentius; after the same.
• The Murder of the Innocents; after the same.
• Susannah and the Elders; after Titian. 1586.
• St. John preaching in the Wilderness: after A. del Sarto.
• The Descent from the Cross; after Daniele da Volterra.
• The Virgin and Infant in the Clouds; after Livio Agresti.
• The Elevation of the Cross; after the same.

•   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Cavalleriis, Giovanni Battista de". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
• Witcombe, Christopher L. C. E., 2004: Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome. No. 100, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

 

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