ut with the cutting of gems, with working in incavo, and
with architecture; for which having been richly rewarded by the
liberality of that King, he has spent large sums in investments in the
territory of Parma, in order to be able to retire in his old age to the
enjoyment of his native country among his friends and disciples, after
the labours of so many years.

After these masters came another excellent copper-plate engraver,
Lamberto Suave,[15] by whose hand are thirteen plates of Christ and the
twelve Apostles, in which the execution of the engraving is perfect in
its delicacy. If Lamberto had possessed a more thorough mastery of
design in addition to the industry, patience, and diligence that he
showed in all other points, he would have been marvellous in every
respect; as may be perceived clearly from a little sheet of S. Paul
writing, and from a larger sheet with the story of the Raising of
Lazarus, in which there are most beautiful things to be seen. Worthy of
note, in particular, are the hollow rock in the cavern which he
represented as the burial-place of Lazarus, and the light that falls
upon some figures, all of which is executed with beautiful and fanciful
invention.

No little ability, likewise, has been shown in this profession by Giovan
Battista Mantovano, a disciple of Giulio Romano; among other works, in a
Madonna who has the Child in her arms and the moon under her feet, and
in some very beautiful heads with helmet-crests after the antique; in
two sheets, in which are a captain of mercenaries on foot and one on
horseback, and also in a sheet wherein is a Mars in armour, who is
seated upon a bed, while Venus gazes on a Cupid whom she is suckling,
which has in it much that is good. Very fanciful, also, are two large
sheets by the hand of the same master, in which is the Burning of Troy,
executed with extraordinary invention, design, and grace. These and
many other sheets by the same hand are signed with the letters "J.B.M."

And no less excellent than any of those mentioned above has been Enea
Vico of Parma, who engraved the well-known copper-plate of the Rape of
Helen by Rosso, and also another plate after the design of the same
painter, of Vulcan with some Loves, who are fashioning arrows at his
forge, while the Cyclopes are also at work, which was truly a most
beautiful engraving. He executed the Leda of Michelagnolo on another,
and also an Annunciation after the design of Tiziano, the story of
Ju