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GRAAT Gimignano, a series of scenes from the life of St. Augustine, and other subjects in the Pieve. Between 1400 and 14H5 he painted, in the Campo Santo, Pisa, a series of frescos representing 24 subjects from the Old Tes- tament, the most pleasing of which is HU/I and his Family, which contains the charm- ing episode of the vintage and a rich archi- tectural and landscape background. Among his extant easel pictures are the Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas, Louvre ; Conception, Pisa Academy ; Miracles of St. Hyacinth, Vatican, Rome ; Madonna with Saints, Vi- enna Museum ; Miracles of S. Jacinto, Vati- can ; 3Fadoinia with Saints, Rape of Jfflr/i, National Gallery, **. London; History of [I f t Lueretia, National (/ I {-* / Gallery, Dublin. -^ L/ C. A: C., Italy, ii. /) /^ 408 ; Vasari. ed Le l /T MOD., iv. 184; Bal- U J Q dinucci, i. 41)0 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole florentine ; Burckhardt, 5.'i8; L'Art (1881), xxvii. 125 ; Liibke, Gesch. d. ital. Mai., i. 318; Gautier, Guide au Louvre, 01. GRAAT, BAREND, born in Amsterdam in 1028, died there in 1700. Dutch school ; landscape, genre, and history painter, pupil of his uncle, an animal and landscape painter ; studied much from nature, and took Pieter van Laar for his model. He established a school of design at his house, where the best artists of his time congre- gated to draw from life. Works : Home Scene, Buckingham Palace, London ; Hunt, Coursing (both with Reinier de Vries), New York Museum. Immerzcel, i. 200 ; Kramm, ii. 598. GRAAUW, HENDRIK, born at Hoorn, North Holland, in 1027, died at Alkmaar in 1682. Dutch school ; history and portrait painter, pupil of Pieter de Grebber and of the architect Jacob van Campen; was then employed by Prince Maurice of Nassau to paint frescos in the cupola of the Palace in the Wood, which established his reputation; went in 1048 to Rome, where he was inti- mate with Poussin ; returned after three years, and lived successively at Amsterdam and Utrecht until 1072, when he removed to Hoorn. For the family of Bronckhorst he painted a series of historical and fabulous subjects, which were much admired. Im- incTzeel, i. 2'.>1. G RACKS, THIiKE, /',,/nw Vecchio, Dress- den Gallery; wood, H. 15 ft. 1 in. :' 4 ft. 4 in. Three young women, half-length, grouped in a landscape. Sometimes called I'ahua's daughters, but it is doubtful whether they were painted from three models or from one. In 1525 in collection of Taddeo Con- tarini, then in Giustiniani and Cornari families ; bought from the Procurate&sn Coniaro della Casa Grande for 000 ducats. C. A. C., X. Italy, ii. -ISO; Bottari, Rao- colta, vii. .'i74. Bv ItdfilifU'l, Due d'Aumale, Cliantilly ; wood, II. OJ in. : 4J in. Threo Graces, nude, grouped in the classical form, each holding one of the apples of the Hcsperides. Three Graces, Raphael, Due H'Aumale, ChanMly. Probably suggested by the antique marble group in the Opera del Diionict, Siena. Painted in Perugia in 1504-5? Passed from the Borghese Collection to M. Reboul. ira