The Reformed Pastor; A Discourse on the Pastoral Office. Designed Principally to Explain and Recommend the Duty of Personal Instruction and ... for the Ministry, and to Tutors. Written

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1766. Excerpt: ... But Israel Martin, Schon, and the Todesco (who is by some surnamed, "the master of the can"dlestick," becauie of the foulness of his ink) were of the very first, as far as we can collect, who published any works of this kind under their names, wrought off by the rolling-press, and whose slender attempts gave encouragement to those who have succeeded.: , Giorgio Vasari, who has been exceedingly curious in this enquiry, attributes the first invention of this art to one Maso Finiguerra a Florentine, about Anno Mcccclx, which exceeds our former computation by thirty years: but then we are to consider by what progress and degrees •, for it was first only in silver, to fill with a certain encaustic or black enamel, which it seems gave him the first hint how to improve it in plates of brass, which having engraved, he did only fume, taking off' the impression with a moist paper and a rolling-pin. This mean commencement was yet afterwards perilled by Baccio Baldini a goldsmith, his countryman, whose works coming to .the sight of AnDrea Mantegna in Rome, invited that great painter to give him some designs of his own for his encouragement •, and from thence it travelled into Flanders tooneMARTin of Antwerp, whose works (.as we observed) were usually countersigned with M. the sirst whereof were The five wise and five scoLifo. virgins, and A crucifix., which was so well cut, that Gerardo a Florentine painter would needs copy it: after this he publiihed his Four « evangelists; Our Saviour, and The twelve apostles; A Veronica; St. George; Christ before Pilate An assumption assumption of the B. Virgin, one of the rarest that ever he did •, besides that St. Anthony's temptation, which was so well performed, that Michael AnGelo (exceedingly ravished with it) would needs wash i...