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ISO PISANO— POCCETTI. the prescriptive fonns of the Greek School are supplanted hy nature, ex- pressed with great intelligence. The Assisi specimen of these interesting works is of the year 1286, or four years before the birth of Cimabue; a tracing of it has been published by Kamboux, in his Outlines from old Christian Pmnt- ingSf in Italy. Bosini, who has engraved the other, supposes that Giunta had the chief hand in the frescoes of San Piero in Grade, near Pisa, and that he was invited to Assisi by Fra Elia in consequence of these works. Giunta painted on cloth stretched on wood and prepared with plaster. The im- pasto is good, but the colouring is brown and homy. {MariottifMorronaf Lanziy Rosini*) PISTOJA, Leonabdo da, called II PisTOJA, painted 1516, d, at Naples about 1550. Tuscan School. He was a Tuscan by birth, and worked at Rome and at Naples under Gianfrancesco Penni, called II Fattore. He was a good portrait-painter ; his other works are rare. He is called Guelfo, Mala- testa, and Gratia; little is known about him. There is an Annunciation in the Chapel of the Canonici, marked Leonardus Gratia Pistoriensis, In the Berlin Museum is a Madonna and Child, in the Boman taste, by this painter, marked Opus. Leon, Pist, M.D.XVI. {Vasarif Lami.) PISTOJA, Fea Paolo da, b. 1490, d, Aug. 3, 1547. Tuscan School. His family name was Signoracci; his father Bernardino was his first master. He was a Dominican, and the favourite assistant and heir of Fra Bartolomeo. He painted several pictures after the drawings of B Frate ; Yasari mentions three, in the church of San Domenico at Pistoja; and another, the Assump- tion of the Virgin, in Santa Maria del Sasso in Casentino. Two are still in San Domenico at Pistoja, an Adoration of the Kings (X526), and a Crucifixion; a third, a Madonna and Child and Saints, is in the sacristy, from the con- vent of St Catherine; a fourth is in San Paolo at Pistoja, representing the Virgin enthroned. There is an altar- piece of the Madonna and Child, with Saints, by Fra Paolo, in the Gallezy at Vienna (1510). The fresco of the Crucifixion, with St. Catherine and other Saints, in the convent of Santo Spirito at Siena (1516), and long attributed to Fra Bartolomeo, is also the work of Fra Paolo. ( Vasari^ Mar- chese.) PITOOCHI, Matteo da', h, at Florence, d, at Padua, 1700. Venetian School. He painted, in a natnralist manner, burlesques, heads of mendi- cants, and other genre subjects, which are met with in the Galleries of Venice, Vicenza, and Verona. He executed also some historical works ; a few are in the churches at Padua. ( BrandoUse.) POCCETTI, Bernardino Babba- TELiii, called idso Bernardino delle Grotesche, b, at Florence, 1548, d, Nov. 9, 1612. Tuscan SchooL He was the scholar of Michele del Ghir- landigo, and studied with enthusiasm the works of Raphael, in the Famesina, at Home. He painted chiefly in fresco, and was most celebrated as an orna- mental painter; he possessed great facility of execution, and executed many works on the fapades of houses at Florence. He represented historical fimd religious subjects, which he adorn- ed with landscapes, sea-views, fhiit, and flowers, and other ornamental de- tails. At Florence, in the Nunziata, are some of his most celebrated works, in the cloister of the convent, con- sisting of seven frescoes, of which the first, representing the Beato Amadio restoring a child to life, is conndered his master-piece. At Pistoja, in the convent of the Servi, are also some lunettes, greatly praised, says LanzL {Baldinucci,)