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MORGHEN, RAFFAELLO SANZIO (1758-1833)

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MORGHEN, RAFFAELLO SANZIO (1758-1833) , See also:Italian en-graver, was See also:born at See also:Naples on the loth of See also:June 1758. He received his earliest instructions from his See also:father, himself an engraver; but, in See also:order to be initiated more fully in the See also:art, he was afterwards placed as a See also:pupil under the celebrated Volpato. He assisted this See also:master in See also:engraving the famous pictures of See also:Raphael in the Vatican, and the See also:print which represents the See also:miracle of See also:Bolsena is inscribed with his name. He married Volpato's daughter, and, being invited to See also:Florence to engrave the masterpieces of the Florentine See also:Gallery, he removed thither with his wife in 1782. His reputation now became so See also:great as to induce the artists of Florence to recommend him to the See also:grand See also:duke as a See also:fit See also:person to engrave the " Last Supper " of, Leonardo da See also:Vinci; apart, however, from the dilapidated See also:state of the picture itself, the See also:drawing made for Morghen was unworthy of the See also:original, and the print, in consequence, although an admirable See also:production, fails to convey a correct See also:idea of the See also:style and merit of Leonardo. Morghen's fame, however, soon extended over See also:Europe; and the See also:Institute of See also:France, as a See also:mark of their admiration of his talents, elected him an See also:associate in 1803. In 1812 See also:Napoleon invited him to See also:Paris and paid him the most flattering attentions. He died at Florence on the 8th of See also:April 1833. A See also:list of the artist's See also:works, published at Florence in 181o, comprised 200 compositions; the number was afterwards considerably increased. Amongst the most remarkable, besides those already mentioned, may be noticed the Transfiguration from Raphael, a Magdalen from See also:Murillo, a See also:Head of the Saviour from da Vinci, the See also:Car of See also:Aurora from Guido, the See also:Hours and the Repose in See also:Egypt from Poussin, the See also:Prize of See also:Diana from See also:Domenichino, the See also:Monument of See also:Clement XIII. from See also:Canova, See also:Theseus vanquishing the See also:Minotaur, See also:Francesco Moncado after See also:Van Dyck, portraits of See also:Dante, See also:Petrarch, See also:Ariosto, See also:Tasso, and a number of other eminent men. His prints have hardly maintained the reputation which they enjoyed during the artist's lifetime. Though carefully and delicately executed, they are somewhat See also:mechanical and wanting in force and spirit.

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