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TASSI— TESAURO. 177 Gnercino, and Oentilescbi. Tassi's friezes and other works were held in such esteem at Rome that Innocent X. wonld not enlarge his family palace in the Piazza Navona, in order that he might preserve the decorations which Tassi had executed for him while Car- dinal. The celebrated Claude Lorrain was Tassi's cook and colour-grinder: this would be at the time he was engaged in the Quirinal Palace by Paul Y., and with Tassi Claude acquired the first principles of the art by which his name is immortalized. {Passeri, Sandrart.) TAVARONE, Lazzabo, 6. at Genoa 1556, d. 1641. Genoese School. The scholar of Luca Cambiaso, whom he accompanied to Spain to aid in the decoration of the Escurial. Tavarone remained many years in Spain after the death of Cambiaso, and returned to Genoa in 1594, where be attained a great reputation as a portrait-painter, and for his historical subjects in oil and in fresco : he excelled particularly as a colourist, but painted much in the style of Cambiaso. His works are numerous at Genoa ; they are chiefly frescoes. Works, Genoa, cathedral, Martyr- dom of San Lorenzo ; Palazzo Saluzzi, other frescoes; Palazzo Adomi, State Services of that Family : Oratorio di Sant' Ambrogio, the History of the Titular, &c. {Sopranij Hatti.) TAVELLA, Caulo Antonio, b. at Milan, 1668, d. at Genoa, 1738. Genoese School. Of a Genoese family. The scholar of Giuseppe Merati, and of a German called Solfarolo; much later, in 1695, he studied with Peter Molyn, called Tempesta by the Italians, and became an excellent landscape-painter. The figures in his pictures were com- monly inserted by Magnasco, and Do- menico and Paolo Piola. Tavella's works are numerous in Genoa, espe- cially in the Palazzo Franchi. {Batti.) TEMPESTA, Antonio, b, at Flo- rence in 1555, d. At Rome, 1630. Tuscan School. The scholar of John Stradanus, a Fleming, whom he assisted for some time and then went to Rome, where he was employed by Gregory XIII. He painted for that Pope, in the Vatican, the Trans- lation of the Body of SL Gregory of Nazianzus, and other works, by which he acquired a great reputation. He painted also for the Cardinal Ales- sandro Famese, at Caprarola. Tem- pesta was distinguished as a battle, animal, and landscape painter: horses were his favourite subjects, and he exce^ed in battles, processions, caval- cades, hunts, and field sports. Some of his principal works are the friezes of the Bentivoglio Palace on Monte Cavallo, painted for the Cardinal Sci- pione Borghese; these have been etched by himself. Tempesta's etch- ings axe extremely numerous, amount- ing to upwards of 1500, and his repu- tation now rests chiefly on his works of this class; though bold, they are heavy, and confused in composition: the most valuable are hunts and field sports, and studies of horses. He was, according to Lanzi, the first Italian who ever attained distinction in land- scape or animal painting. {Baglione^ Gandellini.) TESAURO, Bebnardo, painted 1460-80. Neapolitan School. The scholar of the elder Silvestro Buono, and the best of the Neapolitan pain- ters during the fifteenth century; he excelled in colour, and approached nearer to , the cinquecento schools in composition, and in the treatment of his draperies, than any of his con- temporaries. His principal remaining works are the Seven Sacraments on the ceiling of the church of San Giovanni de' Pappacodi ; that of Marriage repre- sents the ceremony as performed on the occasion of the marriage of Fer- dinando II. with Ippolita Maria Sforza. N