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In Bologna. 461 Gallery by his well-known Ecce Homo ; a Coronation of the Virgin; a Magdalen; The Youthful Christ embracing S. John ; S. Jerome ; Lot and his Daughters ; and Susannah and the Elders. Our illustration (Fig. 160) will serve to give some idea of his peculiar style. Francesco Albani (1578 — 1660), a friend and fellow- pupil of Guido in the school of the Carracci, is remem- bered chiefly for his frescoes of classic scenes in the Verospi Palace, Rome. We must also name as distinguished members of the Eclectic Schools of Italy, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591 — 1666), called Guer- cino, who excelled in brilliancy of colouring, depth of chiaroscuro, and power of expression, as instanced in Dido's Last Moments, in the Spada Gallery, Home, and the group of Angels weeping over the Dead Christ, in the National Gallery ; Giovanni Battista Salvi (1605 — 1685), surnamed Sasso- ferrato, a tolerably successful imitator of Raphael, and somewhat brilliant colourist, represented in the National Gallery by two Madonnas ; and Carlo Dolci (1616 — 1686), who painted Madonnas and Saints with considerable grace and spirit, and is best known by his S. Cecilia in the Dresden Gallery, and S. Andrew immediately before his Execution, in the Pitti Palace, Florence. 2. The Naturalistic School. The Naturalists did not found so important a school as the Eclectics. Their determination to imitate nature exactly as she appeared to them led them into many extravagances, and altogether defeated their own object.