opened an academy, having among his pupils Velasquez, who married his daughter Juana, and Alonso Cano. In 1614 he painted for the convent of S. Isabel his principal work, the Last Judgment. From 1623 he spent two years in Madrid with Velasquez. Notwithstanding continual study, Pacheco never rose above mediocrity as a painter, and he is best known as the author of "Arte de la Pintura" (Seville, 1649). He succeeded best in portraits. Works: SS. Agnes, Catharine, John Evangelist, John Baptist, Madrid Museum.—Viardot, 131; Stirling, 462; Madrazo, 496.
PACHECO, Doña JUANA, wife of Velasquez,
portrait, Velasquez, Dudley House,
London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 3 in.
About twenty years old, half-length, with
right hand on back of a chair, a fan in left;
wearing a robe with high neck and green
sleeves, gold chain, pearl necklace, and earrings.
Salamanca sale (1867), 98,000 francs.—Curtis,
102.
By Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 2 ft. × 1 ft. 8 in. About twenty-four years old, nearly half-length, seated, holding a portfolio; wears a yellow mantle and pearl necklace. First manner. Formerly in Collection of Queen Isabel Farnese. Etched by B. Maura; lithographed by H. Blanco.—Lübke, Hist. Art, ii. 386; Curtis, 102; Madrazo, 622.
PACHER, MICHAEL, born at Bruneck,
Tyrol, flourished about 1465-83. German
school; history painter, free from the exaggerations
of his German contemporaries,
and gifted with a rare feeling for beauty.
Works: Altarpiece (1481), St. Wolfgang,
Salzburg; do. (1465), Vienna Museum;
do., at Pinzon, near Neumarkt, Tyrol.—D.
Kunstbl. (1853), 131, 175; (1854), 427;
(1855), 79; Förster, Denkmale, i. 17; viii.
15, 25; do., Gesch., ii. 261; Schnaase, viii.
481; W. & W., ii. 127.
PACUVIUS, painter and tragic poet, of
Brundusium, born about 220, and died
about 130 B.C. He lived many years in
Rome, where he won fame by both his poetry
and his paintings. Pliny says (xxxv. 7
[19]) that his picture in the Temple of Hercules,
in the Cattle Market, was only second
in celebrity to the famous work of Fabius
Pictor.—Brunn, ii. 303.
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PADOVANINO, IL, born in Padua in
1590, died in
1650. Venetian
school;
real name Alessandro
Varotari;
son of
Dario Varotari
(Darius Weihrotter,
of Augsburg,
who
changed his
German name on removing to Padua), a
reputable painter and architect, who died
when his son was six years old. Alessandro
studied the frescos of Titian at Padua, and
in 1614 went to Venice to study his other
works. He soon became one of his most
successful imitators, and if his design had
equalled his colouring, he would have been
one of the greatest painters of the Venetian
school, but he lacked robustness and virility,
and is well characterized by Charles Blanc
as a feminine Titian. The most important of
his works is the Marriage of Cana, in the
Venice Academy. In the same collection
are the Wife of Darius, Deacon at Prayer,
Virgin in a Glory of Angels, Rape of Proserpine,
Judith, Orpheus and Eurydice,
Vanity, and the Jewish Mother at the Siege
of Jerusalem. Other examples are Venus
and Cupid, Louvre; Orpheus, Madrid Museum;
Triumph of Venus, Bergamo Gallery;
Lucretia with the Dagger, Uffizi,
Florence; Venus Attiring, Borghese, Rome;
Holy Family, Naples Museum; Cornelia
and her Children, Boy with a Bird, National
Gallery, London; Judith with the Head
of Holofernes, Cleopatra, Lucretia, Dresden
Museum; Holy Family with Angels,
Königsberg Museum; Eumenes promising
Protection to Roxana, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Judith, Holy Family, Christ and
