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BATONI— BELLINI. 21 many portraits and smaller works, all remarkable for their careful execution, high finish, and insipidity. Works, Home, Sta. Maria Maggiore, the Annunciation; Monte Gavallo, in the Pavilion, Christ giving the keys to Peter: Santa Maria degli Angeli, the Fall of Simon Magus : San Celso, great altar-piece. Lucca, San Crocifisso, St. Bartholomew. Dresden, St. John in the Wilderness ; the Magdalen. St. Petersburgh, Lisbon, &c ( Bom, Lanzi, ) BAZZANI, Giuseppe, d, 1769. Lombard School, fresco painter. Pupil of Giovanni Ganti. He studied the works of Bubens at Mantua, where he died Director of the Academy. BEAUMONT, Cav. Claudio Fran- cesco-, h, at Turin, 1694, d. 1768. He studied in Home, and made his choice in the imitation of the style of Fran- cesco Trevisani, of Venice, very popular at Home at that time. Beaumont was a good imitator, and is one of the most distinguished painters of Piedmont; he, too, is reckoned among the last of the Italians. Works, Turin, Boyal Palace, library, frescoes ; Ghiesa della Groce, a Descent from the Cross. (Xanzt.) BECCAFUMI, DoMENico, or cor- rectly, Mecherino, h, at Siena, 1484, d, according to Yasari (living 1551 accord- ing to DellaValle), 1549. Sienese School, of which he was one of the principal masters, and the rival of Bazzi. He was an imitator of Pietro Perugino, but later enlarged his style by study- ing the works of Baphael and Michel- angelo, but did not improve it: he forsook his original softness for a species of clumsy plumpness, and his heads became harsh and ugly. He excelled in perspective, and was fond of foreshortenings. He worked in bronze as well as in painting, and executed in mosaic and niello (black cement) some parts of the pavement designs of the choir of the Duomo at Siena. Works* Siena, Palazzo della Sig- noria; Oratory of San Bernardino; San Francesco; Academy. Florence, the Uffi^. Bome, the Borghese. Naples, the Stu^j. And in the gal- leries of Munich and Berlin. ( Vasari.) BECGARUZZI, Francesco, a painter of Conegliano, pupil of Pordenone. Venetian School, p. 1527-40. Works, Venice, Academy, St. Francis receiving the Stigmata, with many Saints below. {Ridolfi,) BEINASCHI, or Benaschi, Cav, Giovanni Battista, h, at Turin, 1636, d, at Naples, 1690. Neapolitan School. He studied at Bome under Pietro del Po, and imitated thQ works of Lan- franco. He settled in Naples, and painted several ceilings, and oth^ works in fresco there, and also esta- blished a considerable school. Angela Beinaschi, his daughter, was a good portrait-painter; she died in Bome in 1717, aged 51. (Orlandu) BELLINI, Belun, pamted about 1500. Venetian^chool. The pupil of Giovanni Bellim. His pictures have sometimes been mistaken for those of his master. {Bidolfi,) BELLINI, Fn.T.TPPO, of Urbino, painted in 1594. Boman School. He was a successful imitator of Federigo Barocci. Works, Loreto, Basilica, the Cir- cumcision. Ancona, the Dome, Mar- riage of the Virgin. Fabriano, Ghiesa della Carita, the works of Charity, in fourteen pictures. (Lanzi,) BELLINI, Gentile, b, at Venice, 1421, d. Feb. 23, 1607 (or rather 1508, as Feb. is now among the first instead of the last months of the year.) Vene- tian School. The son of Jacopo, and the elder brother of Giovanni Bellini, named after da Fabriano. Gentile was sent by the Venetian Government to paint ^e portrait of the Sultan Mah- moud II., who gave Gentile a remark- able lesson in objective truth of reprer