A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
St. Jerome prayiug ; in a landscape ; ajter the same.
St. Catliarine, St Sebastian, and four otlier Saints ;
after the same.
A mountainous Landscape, with a Woman milking a
Cow.
Venus seated on a Bank, holding Cupid, a Squirrel on
the Branch of a Tree ; marked Titianus inv. Nicolatta
Boldrinus Vicentinua incidehat. 1566.
BOLLMAN, HiERONTMUS. By this artist, who was probably a native of Germany, we liave some prints after Raphael and other eminent painters of the Italian school. They are executed in a bold, free, and effective style, and possess considerable merit.
BOLLONGIE, Hans or Jan Bolongieb, flourished in Holland in the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury. He entered the Painters' Guild at Haarlem in 1623, and is again mentioned in the records in 1642. Neither his birth nor his death is recorded. In the Rotterd.ara Museum is a ' Scene of a Carni- val,' signed H. Bollongie, 1628. A flower-piece, marked I. B. 1625, in the Dresden Gallery is attri- buted to him. HoRATiDS Bolongieb of Haarlem was also a painter; he died in 1681.
BOLOGNA, Andrea da, was a follower of Vitale. A painting by him, representing ' The Virgin and Child,' signed Db Bononia natds, Andreas fatds A.D. MCCCLXXii., is in the church Del Sacramento at Pansola, near Macerata. Another example of this painter is in a convent at Fermo, but Bologna does not possess any work by him.
BOLOGNA, Cristoforo da, has been claimed as belonging to Bologna, IModena, and Ferrara. As his works are found in the last-named city, it is presumed that he lived there. He painted toward the close of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century. Among his works at Ferrara, an ' En- tombment,' signed Xpofoeus fecit, in the Costabili Collection, is worthy of note.
BOLOGNA, Lattanzio da, was, according to Baglione, a native of Bologna, and a scholar of the Carracci. On leaving that celebrated academy he went to Rome, and was employed by Sixtus V. in painting the ceiling of one of the saloons in the Lateran. He also painted the ceiling in the chapel of Sixtus V. in the church of Santa Maria Mag- giore, representing a choir of angels. In Santa Slaria de' Monti is a fine picture by him of the ' Flagellation.' This painter promised to arrive at a high rank in the art, but being naturally of a weak constitution, which was probably impaired by constant application, he died, much regretted, at the age of 27.
BOLOGNA, Lorenzo da. See Sabbatini.
BOLOGNA, Niccol6 da, is the author of a mis- iial, with the date 1.S74, in the Munich Gallery, and of miniatures in a Commentary on the New Testa- ment, in the library of the Vatican, at Rome.
BOLOGNA, Pellegrini da. See Pellegrini.
BOLOGNA, SiMONE da, who painted from 1370 to 1377 at Bologna, is thought to have been a pupil of Franco Bolognese. He is also called 'Sinione de' Crocifissi,' in contradistinction to Vitale, who never treated that subject, whilst Simone painted little else. His figures are somewhat masculine and coarse. His chief works are in Bologna : J Capella ( i!el/a S. Giacomo Maggiore. j ^-,,,„^^ S.Stefano. Fourth church. Crucifixion (siaiied). Crucifixion (Simon fecit eoc OPUS A.D. MCCCLXX.).
Seventh church. St. Ursula and her companions. . , ( Coronation of the Virgin Academi,. | (Simon fecit). Other paintings by him are in Modena, Ferrara, and elsewhere.
BOLOGNA, ToMMASo Vincitore da. See Vin- CITORE.
BOLOGNA, Vitale da. See Cavalli.
BOLOGNESE, Franco, a miniature painter of the 14th century, is said to have received instruc- tion from Oderigi of Gubbio. In conjunction with that master and Giotto he was employed by Pope Boniface VIII. to illustrate several books, now in the library of the Vatican. Though inferior to Giotto, Dante gives him a higher rank in the ' Purgatorio ' (xi. 83). Franco Bolognese was the founder of a school of painters at Bologna, and instructed, amongst others, Vitale, Lorenzo, Si- mone Jacopo, and Cristoforo da Bologna.
BOLOGNESE, II. See Grimaldi, Giov. Fr., alsc Monti.
BOLOGNINI, Carlo, who is mentioned in the ' Abecedario Pittorico ' of Padre Orlandi, was born at Bologna in 1678 (Zani says 1662), and was first a scholar of Mauro Aldrovandini. He afterwards studied under Giulio Trogli. He excelled in paint- ing architectural views and perspective, and was much employed at Vienna, where he resided some years. He died in 1704.
BOLOGNINI, Giacomo, the nephew of Giovanni Battista Bolognini, was bom at Bologna in 1664. He received his instruction in the art from his uncle, and became a reputable painter of history. There are some of his pictures in the churches at Bologna. In that of SS. Sebastiano e Rocco there is a picture of ' St. Francis receiving the Stigmata ; ' and in that of the Purita, ' The dead Christ, with the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen.' He died in 1734.
BOLOGNINI, Giovanni Battista, a Bolognese painter and engraver, was born at Bologna in 1611, and died at the same place in 1688. He was one of the ablest scholars of Guido Reni. There are several of his pictures in the churches at Bologna. In Santa Maria Nuova is a picture by this master, representing ' The Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus, with St. Dominic, St. Eustatius, and Mary Mag- dalene.' In the church of the Servi, 'The dead Christ, with the Virgin Mary, St. John, and others ; " in Santa Lucia, ' The Immaculate Conception,' and in the Pinacoteca of that town is a ' Magdalen ' by him. This artist etched some plates after the works of Guido, in a slight spirited manner ; among them are the following:
The Murder of the Innocents ; after Ouido. St. Peter made Head of the Church ; after the same. Bacchus and Ariadne ; in three sheets ; after the same. The Crucifixion ; after the picture in the church of the Capuchins at Bologna.
BOLONGIEK. See Bollongie.
BOLSWERT, BoETius Adam a, an eminent en- graver, was born at Bolswert, a town in Friesland, about 1580. It is not said by whom he was in- structed in the art of engraving ; but, in company with his younger brother Scheltius, he settled at Antwerp as a printseller and engraver. He died in that city about the end of the year 1633. He worked entirely with the graver, and seems to have adopted the free open manner of Cornells Bloemaert. The plates that he engraved after Rubens are, however, in a more finished style, and fuller of colour. He sometimes signed his plates dams =2; olsvert,& sometimes j^fy ^olsuerd.
His principal plates are the following:
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