A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
MYTHOLOGICAL SUBJECTS.
1. Apollo and Diana.
2. Ariadne, also called Cleopatra.
3. Mara and Venus.
4. Venus.
5. The gre.it Sacrifice to Priapus.
6. The little Sacrifice to Priapus.
7. The Guardian Angel.
8. Two Tritons caressing in the Sea.
9. A Fury carried off by a Triton.
10. Pegasus.
11. Fauns.
12. Family of Satyrs.
13. A Victory.
14. Victory and Fame, or Imperial Rome.
15. The Two Doctors.
16. The Two Centaurs.
17. Peasant and Family, called by Bartsch ' Adam
and Eve.'
18. Three men bound (Les Supplicies).
SACKED SUBJECTS.
19. Adoration of the Magi. 20. Jesus Christ. 21. Sebastian bound. 22. Holy Family, with St. Paul. 23. Another Holy Family (small square plate). 24. Holy Family, in an enclosed place. 25. Judith and Holofernes. 26. St. Catharine. 27. St. Jerome. 28. Hagar.
The supposition that Jacopo de' Bar- barj was also a sculptor has not been proved. He signed usually with the Caduceus. But it has been supposed that the plates signed with W. which are generally attributed to Wolgemut are also by him. (See article by Dr. Anton Springer, Zeitschn/l fiir hildende Kunst, October 1876.) Dr. Springer is of opinion that though he signed with the Caduceus in Italy, he adopted the W. in Germany in reference to his cognomen of Walch. See article by Emile Galichon, in ' Gazette des Beaux-Arts,' September 1873; 'Notes Bio- graphiques sur Jacopo de Barbarj,' by Charles Ephrussi, 1876. M. M. H.
BARBASAN, Louis, was, according to Florent le Comte, a monk of the Abbey of Premontre, and engraved the plan and perspective view of that monastery, from a design of F. Baj'ette, another ecclesiastic of the same Order.
BARBATELLI, Bernardino, called Poccetti, also Bernardino ' dalle Grottesche,' ' dallb Facciate,' or ' dalle Muse,' was born at Flor- ence in 1542 or 1548. He was a scholar of Michele di Ridolfo Ghirlandajo. After quitting the school of Michele, he went to Rome and studied the works of Raphael and other great masters there. He subsequently returned to his native place, not only a pleasing and graceful figurist, but rich and leauned in his compositions j hence he was enabled to adorn his historical sub- jects with beautiful landscapes, with sea views, with fruit and flowers, draperies and tapestries, which he imitated to admiration. He was more successful in fresco than in oil painting. Very few of his pictures on panel or canvas, but many of his frescoes, remain in Florence. He died at that city in 1612. The following are some of his best works :
Florence. S. Annunziata. San Marco. 80 Scenes from the life of the foimder of the Convent of the Servites. Scenes from the Life of St. An- thony ( fresco). Florence. Pitti Palace. Life of Cosimo I. (decoration of tfreat Scrloon). „ Certosa. Life of St. Bruno.
BARBAULT, Jean, a French painter and en- graver, who resided some time at Rome, was born about 1705. As a painter he is little known, but he etched a set of prints of ' Les plus beaux Monuments de Rome ancienne,' as well as two other series of archseological plates. He likewise executed a few engravings, amongst which are the 'Martyrdom of St. Peter,' after Subleyras, and the 'Arrival of Columbus in America,' after Solimena. He died in Rome in 1765 or 1766.
BARB^, Jan Bafiista, a Flemish engraver, was born at Antwerp in 1678. In 1595 he entered the studio of Philippe Galle, and in 1610 he was re- ceived as a master into the Guild of St. Luke. He soon afterwards went to Italy to improve himself in drawing, which may account for his being more correct in his design than many of his country men. On his return to Antwerp he engraved several small and middle-sized plates, in a veqr neat manner, and in a style very similar to that of Wiericx. He died at Antwerp in 1649. Van Dyck painted a portrait of tliis artist, which is engraved by Bolswert.
SUBJECTS FROM HIS OWN DESIGNS.
The Annunciation ; inscribed Spiriliis sanctus. The Nativity ; inscribed Peperit Jilium. The Virgin Mary and St. Joseph arriving at Bethlehem ; inscribed £t rt'dbiavU etim^ -Sfi?. The Virgin suckling the Infant Jesus in a Garland of Flowers ; inscribed Btatus venter, IjC. Clu-ist on the Mount of Olives; In diebus, ^C- Clurist and the Disciples at Emmaus ; Jit aperti stmt, IjC. The Crucifixion ; Prohejili, ijC. St. Ignatius Loyola kneeling before an Altar. Four Emblematical Subjects of the Christian Virtues.
AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS.
The Repose in Egypt ; St. Joseph presenting an Apple to the Infant ; after O. B. Paggi. The Holy Family, with the Infant Jesus embracing St Joseph ; after Rubens. Twenty-four plates of the Life and Miracles of Father Gabriel Maria, founder of the Annunciades ; with his Portrait; after A. van Diepeiiheeck. The Virgin seated on a Throne, liolding the Infant, with a Bird; after Frans Franck, the elder. In Meyer's 'Kunstler-Lexikon' there is a list of 148 of his engravings.
BARBELLA, Giovanni Giacomo, was born at Cremona in 1690, and died in 1656. He is highly extolled by Pasta for his pictures in various churches at Bergamo ; and particularly for an altar-piece in San Lazzaro, representing the titular Saint, remarkable for its dignity of character and decision of hand.
BARBER, Charles, was bom in Birmingham, and early in life settled in Liverpool, where he became president of the Institute of Art in 1813. He afterwards exhibited landscapes with the Water- Colour Society. He was an occasional contributor to the Royal Academy, sending there — ' A View of Dovedale,' ' Evening after Rain,' and other land- scapes with figures. He died at Liverpool in 1864.
BARBER, Charles Burton, an animal painter, was born at Great Yarmouth in 1845. He studied at the Academy Schools, and in 1864 obtained a silver medal for drawing from the antique. In 1866, when only twenty-one years of age, he exhibited his first picture at the Royal Academy, to
