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SALVI—SANGALLO. 157 attributed to Sassoferrato are nume- rous in the great European Galleries, but some of them are probably by his father Tarquinio Salvi, and more are copies from his own works. His works are generally small, the largest is the altar-piece in the cathedral of Monte- fiascone. The Madonna del Rosario, in Santa Sabina at Borne, is considered one of his master-pieces ; there are also fine specimens in the Louvre, at Berlin, at Dresden, and in Devonshire House and Luton House in England. (Lanzi.) SALVIATI, Feancesco Bossi del, called Cecchino del Salvuti, from the name of the Cardinal, his patron, b, at Florence, 1510, d. at Borne, November 11, 1563. Tuscan School. He studied under Giuliano Bu^iardini, Baffaello da Brescia, and with Baccio Bandi- nelli, when he contracted a lasting friendship with his fellow scholar, Va- sari. Salviati possessed the same fa- cility of execution as his friend Vasari : they studied also with Andrea del Sarto; and Michelangelo, that master's great model, was also theirs : Salviati belongs to the anatomical school of Mannerists. He painted in many cities of Italy, and in France, in the time of Henry XL, but chiefly in Bome and Florence : in the former city chiefly for Cardinal Salviati. Many of his com- positions were on a large scale, and his friend Vasari considered them among the best of their time; he decorated also one of the great saloons of tlie Palazzo Vecchio at Florence, with sub- jects from ancient Bom an history. He was a good portrait-painter. The De- position from the Cross was a favourite subject with him ; and he painted several Holy Families. He completed the great altar-piece of the Chigi Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo, at Rome, left unfinished by Sebastiano del Piombo. In the Berlin Gallery is a picture of Cupid and Psyche; and another of the Baptist in the Wilder- ness. And in the Louvre is the Incre- dulity of St. Thomas, by Salviati. ( Vasari.) SAMACCHINI, Orazio, b. at Bo- logna, 1532, d. 1577. Bolognese School. He was a scholar of Pellegrino Tibaldi, and an imitator of Correggio and Par- migiano. He was one of those em- ployed by Pius lY. to decorate the Sala Begia, at Bome, but finding want of harmony in the prevailing styles of Bome and his own peculiar taste, he returned soon to Bologna, where his best works are chiefly to be found, as in San Giacomo Maggiore, the Purifi- cation of the Virgin, engraved by Agos- tino Carracci: and others in the Aca- demy, the Certosa, and the Trinita. In ^e cathedral of Parma, he com- pleted some unfinished works of Par- migiano's. And among his best works also is the ceiling of Sant' Abondio in Cremona. {Lanzi.) SAMMABTINO, Maeco, living in 1680. Bolognese School. A Neapo- litan, and one of the best Italian painters of landscapes, which he also ornamented with excellent and appro- priate figures. His works are chiefly in the galleries of Venice, Bimini, and Bologna. Two of his principal pieces are the Baptism of Constantine in the cathedral at Bimini; and the Preach- ing in the Wilderness, by San Vin- cenzio, at SS. Giovanni e Paolo, at Venice. Sammartino has also etched many plates. He is the Sanmarehi mentioned by Malvasia and others. {Lanzi.) SANGALLO, Bastiano di, called Abistotele, b. at Florence, 1491, d. May 31, 1551. Florentine School. A scholar for a short time of Pietro Perugino, but he soon adopted the style of Michel- angelo. He is mentioned by Vasari as one of those who made a small copy of the celebrated Cartoon of Pisa, exe- cuted by Michelangelo at Florence in