drawing by Raffaello, and a scene in which God the Father is blessing
the seed of Abraham, with the handmaiden and two children. Next were
engraved all the round pictures that Raffaello had painted in the
apartments of the Papal Palace, such as the Universal Knowledge,
Calliope with the musical instrument in her hand, Foresight, and
Justice; and then, after a small drawing, the scene which Raffaello had
painted in the same apartment, of Mount Parnassus, with Apollo, the
Muses, and the Poets; and also that of AEneas carrying Anchises on his
back while Troy is burning, of which Raffaello had made the drawing in
order to paint a little picture. After this they engraved and printed
another work of Raffaello, Galatea in a car drawn over the sea by
Dolphins, with some Tritons who are carrying off a Nymph.

These works finished, Marc' Antonio engraved many separate figures,
likewise on copper, and after drawings by Raffaello; an Apollo with a
lyre in his hand; a figure of Peace, to whom Love is offering an
olive-branch; the three Theological and the four Moral Virtues, and a
Jesus Christ with the twelve Apostles, of the same size; a half-folio
plate of the Madonna that Raffaello had painted in the altar-piece of
the Araceli, and likewise one of that which went to S. Domenico in
Naples, with Our Lady, S. Jerome, the Angel Raphael, and Tobias; and a
little plate of Our Lady seated on a chair and embracing the Infant
Christ, who is half clothed, with many other figures of the Madonna
copied from the pictures which Raffaello had painted for various
persons. After these he engraved a young S. John the Baptist, seated in
the desert, and then the picture which Raffaello executed for S.
Giovanni in Monte, of S. Cecilia with other Saints, which was held to be
a most beautiful sheet. When Raffaello had finished all the cartoons of
the tapestries for the Papal Chapel, which were afterwards woven in silk
and gold, with stories of S. Paul, S. Peter, and S. Stephen, Marc'
Antonio engraved the Preaching of S. Paul, the Stoning of S. Stephen,
and the Blind Man receiving his Sight; which plates, what with the
invention of Raffaello, the grace of the design, and the diligent
engraving of Marc' Antonio, were so beautiful, that there was nothing
better to be seen. He then engraved, after the invention of the same
Raffaello, a most beautiful Deposition from the Cross, with a Madonna in
a swoon, who is marvellous; and not long afterwards a plate, w