Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri (1526–1597), an Italian engraver

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

, was born at Lagherino and died at Rome. His style of engraving resembles that of Aeneas Vico, although inferior to it. Many of his plates are copies after the great Italian masters; they are etched

Etching

Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...

, and finished with the graver

Burin

Burin from the French burin meaning "cold chisel" has two specialised meanings for types of tools in English, one meaning a steel cutting tool which is the essential tool of engraving, and the other, in archaeology, meaning a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which was probably...

. 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.
• A series of plates entitled Beati Apollinaris Martyris primi Ravennatum episcopi Res gestae; after N. Circignani
  Niccolò Circignani
  Niccolò Circignani was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period.Born in Pomarance, he is one of three Italian painters called Pomarancio. His first works are documented from the 1560s, where he painted frescos on the Old Testament stories for the Vatican Belvedere, where he...
  
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• 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
  Michelangelo
  Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
  
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• 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
  Raphael
  Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
  
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• 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
  Andrea del Sarto
  Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. Though highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist senza errori , his renown was eclipsed after his death by that of his contemporaries, Leonardo da Vinci,...
  
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• The Descent from the Cross; after Daniele da Volterra
  Daniele da Volterra
  Daniele Ricciarelli , better known as Daniele da Volterra, was an Italian mannerist painter and sculptor.He is best remembered for his association, for better or worse, with the late Michelangelo. Several of Daniele's most important works were based on designs made for that purpose by Michelangelo...
  
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• The Virgin and Infant in the Clouds; after Livio Agresti
  Livio Agresti
  Livio Agresti , also called Ritius or Ricciutello, was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period, active both in his native city of Forlì and in Rome, where he died. He was one of the members of the "Forlì painting school"...
  
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• The Elevation of the Cross; after the same.