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20 BASAITI— BATONI. of Gioyanni Bellini, inferior in the modelling of the features, bat in some respects his superior. He followed in some degree the progress of Venetian art, still' retaining his own peculiarities of the quattrocento style. His colour- ing is extremely briUiant, his com- position and expression are good, and his general management of the acces- sories and landscapes is superior to his time. Works. Venice, Santa Maria de' Frari, Coronation of the Virgin, with St. Jerome and other Saints below (commenced by Bartolommeo Viva- rini) ; Sta. Maria degli AngioU, Ascen- sion of the Virgin; San Pietro di Castello, St. Peter, and other Saints; Gallery of the Academy, the Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew, by some considered Basaiti's master-piece, 1511 ; Christ Praying in the Garden, with several Saints, 1610; Sanf Antonio Abbate; San Jacopo; and a Dead Christ. Murano, San Pietro Martire, Assumption of the Virgin. Vienna, Gallery, the Calling of James and John, 1516. Munich, Gallery, Deposi- tion from the Cross. Berlin, Gallery, Madonna and Child, St Anne, Sta. Veronica, and other Saints ; St. Sebas- tian bound. {Moschini.) BASCHENIS, EvAEisTO, b, at Ber- gamo, 1617, d. 1677. Venetian School. He represented musical instruments Irith extraordinary skill, together with various other objects, on tables ; fruit, still-life &c. (TassL) BASSANO. [Da Ponte.] BASSETTI, Mabcantonio, b. at Ve- rona, 1688, d. 1630. Venetian School. Pupil of Brusasorci, and a great ad- mirer of the Venetians and especially Tintoretto, whose works he copied in Venice : he studied also in Home. His pictures are few ; but says Lauzi, they are great in drawing, and excellent in colouring. Works. Verona, San Stefano, Ve- ronese bishops: San Tommaso, St. Peter and other saints : Sant* Anastasia, the coronation of the virgin. (Bi- dolft.) BASSI, Francesco, called II Cre- monese da' Paesi, b. at Cremona, 1642, d, about 1700. A good landscape- painter, who also painted the figures and animals in his views. He lived some time at Venice. There was another figure and landscape painter of this name, of Cremona, known as ihe younger; he was the pupil of the elder Bassi. He was also the pupil of Pasinelli in Bologna: he died young in 1693. {Zaist, Crespi.) BASTARUOLO, II, or Guiseppe Mazzuoli, d. 1589. Ferrarese School. A pupil of Turchi. He was drowned while bathing in the Po. There are several good works by Mazzuoli at Ferrara, in the Gesu, an Annunciation, and a Crucifixion; at the Capucini, the Ascension ; at the Zitelle di Santa Barbara, an altar-piece, several Saints. {Lanzi.) BATONI, Cav. Pompeo GmoLAHO, b, at Lucca, 1708, d. at Rome, 1787. Boman School. The pupil of Francesco Femandi. The works of this painter, the most distinguished of his time, were much influenced by the new or academic form of edectidsm, which had now arisen, and in which was attempted a union of the severe beauty and design of the antique with the various perfec- tions of the great masters of modem art ; it was a renewal of the attempt of the Carracci. Batoni's pictures are well drawn, well coloured, and well painted; he illustrates the beau ideal of the academic taste, in which art has too often ended in its mere means : his works were executed for the sake of their drawing and colouring: the in- tellectual is absorbed in the tech- nicaL Batoni is commonly considered the last great painter of Italy. He painted several great altar-pieces, and