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GIROLAMO Venetian masters. Works: Nativity, Mar- tyrdom of St. Sebastian, Coronation of the Virgin, Crucifixion, Berlin Museum ; Na- tivity, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Dres- den Gallery; St. Thomas Aquinas Enthroned (1520), S. Silvestro, Venice ; Adoration of the Magi, Manfrini Gallery, ib. ; Resurrec- tion (early work), Last Supper (1549), S. Martino, ib. ; Head of Christ, A Bishop, Academy, ib. ; Crucifixion, Adoration of the Shepherds, Museo Civico, Verona ; Corona- tion of the Virgin, God Father and Holy Family, Museo Civico, Padua ; several in Bergamo Gallery ; Nativity, Resurrection, Basle Museum. Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., ii. 024 GIROLAMO DA SERMONETA, born at Sermoneta about 1510 ('{), died in Rome about 1580. Cmbrian school. Real name Girolamo Siciolante ; pupil of Perino del Vaga, whom he assisted in his frescos in Castello S. Angelo and in other works. Employed by Gregory XIII. in the decora- tions of the Sala Regia in the Vatican ; also executed works in many churches in Rome. His best work is the Madonna and Saints, in S. Bartolommeo, Ancona. Said to have been a good portrait painter. His style is antiquated, more like that of the Perugi- nesques than of any of his contemporaries. Vasari, cd Le Mon., x. 170, 1S5 ; ed. Mil., vii. 571 ; Ch. Blanc, Kcole ombrienne. GIROLAMO DA TREVISO, the elder, of Padua, latter half of 15th century. Vene- tian school. Probable pupil of Squarcionc, but painted chiefly at Trcviso, where ho is said to have finished an altarpicce and fres- cos in S. Niccolo in 1470. His oldest known picture is the Death of the Virgin, at Lo- nigo, painted in 1478. Better than this is the Christ at the Column, in Casa Rinaldi, Treviso, in which there is an echo of Auto- nello da Messina. Virgin with Saints, Du- omo, Treviso (1487). C. & C., N. Italy, i. 355 ; Kugler (Eastlake), i. 204. GIROLAMO DA TREVISO, the younger. See PeniKicchi, Girolamo di Pier' Maria. GIRON, CHARLES, born at Geneva; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel. Medals : 3d class, 1879 ; 2d class, 1883. Works : Education of Bac- chus, Musee Rath, Geneva ; The Two Sis- ters, Mary (1883); Portraits. GIRONDISTS, LAST OF THE, Karl von Pilot ij, George A. Drummond, Montreal ; canvas. Scene : the Place de la Revolu- tion, now called Place de la Concorde, with the guillotine in background, left ; in front, the Girondists dragged to execution in carts, amid the jeers of the fishwives, who sit, knit- ting in hand, on platforms under umbrellas. In the rear cart is the dead body of Vala/e, who stabbed himself with a concealed dag- ger on the passing of the sentence. Photo- gravure in Art Treasures of America, ii. 00. GIROUX, ANDRE, born in Paris, April 30, 1801. Genre and landscape painter, son and pupil of the animal painter, Achille G., of Thibaulf, and of the Ecole des Beaux Arts ; won grand prix de Rome in 1825. Medals : 2d class, 1822 ; 1st class, 1831 ; L. of Honour, 1837. Works : Preparing the Market (1819); The Basement, Stable, Mar- ket by the S:-a-shore (1822); Fish-Market, Orpheus and Eurydice (1824); View of Capri (1827); View in the Sabine Country, Shepherd of Casaprota, Sixtus V. and the Gypsy Women (1831); View at Larco Os- curo near Rome (1831), Douai Museum ; Plain of Givsivaudan near Grenoble (1834), Luxembourg Museum ; French Alps (1837), Ministry of Interior, Paris ; Ruins of Resti, Chalets (1837); Knife-Grinder's Shop (1857); Ravine of Golling in Austria (18G3); Valley of Gri'sivaudan near Grenoble (1800); Val- ley of the Dranse in Savoy (1808); Valley of Maglan in Savoy, Mill at Vichy, View at Willegen, Switzerland (1874) ; Landscape, Raveno Gallery, Berlin. Bellier de la Cha- vignerie, i. 003 ; Meyer, Gesch., 772. GIRSCHER, BERNHARD, born at Ro- thenburg, Silesia, in 1822, died in 1870. Landscape painter, pupil in Breslau of Resell, went to Munich in 1849, studied four years there and from nature in the Bavarian High- lands and the Tyrol ; lived some time at 148