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 PRIMATICCIO— PROCACCINI. 135 name of "the School of Fontaine- blean." Pzimaticcio, in his capacity of super- intendent of Royal Buildings to Fran- cis II., was charged with the con- struction of the two monuments at St. Denis, to Francis L and Henry II. And they were not completed until after his deaUi; the latter was designed by Primaticcio, but the chief sculptures were by Germain Pilon. In the Louvre are some pictures attributed to Prima- ticcio and to his scholars, as the Con- tinence of Scipio ; and the Portrait of Diana of Poitiers, Duchess of Yalen- tinois; and two others. Francis I. created him Abbot of St Martin de Troyes in 1544. {Vasari, Oaye.) PROGAOGINI, Ebcolb, called II Yecchio, b. at Bologna, 1520, living 1591. Lombard School. He was the founder of the Eclectic school of Milan, established there by his sons; it is doubted whether Ercole ever lived in Milan ; his chief model was Correggio. His design was minute, and his colour- ing feeble ; but a careful and diligent painter, he opposed himself to the mere executive mannerism prevalent at that period. His school was much frequented ; and, without neglecting the study of Nature, he endeavoured to enforce on his scholars the good result that must ensue from the union of the best qualities of the great masters. Procaccini etched a few plates. Works, Bologna, San Benedetto, the Annunciation : San Oiacomo Mag- giore, Christ praying in the Garden : San Stefano, the Deposition from the Cross. {Lomazzo, Malvasia, Lanzi,) PROCACCINI, Camillo, b. at Bo- logna, 1546, d. at Milan, 1626. Lom- bard School. The son of Ercole Pro- caccini. He studied with his father, with the Carracci, and the works of Correggio, at Parma, and those of Raphael and Michelangelo, at Rome, and settled in Milan about 1590. He possessed extraordinary facility in exe- cution, and produced works, according to Lanzi, sufficient to have occupied ten other painters, in the same time. This facility, however, necessarily led to a careless execution, fatal to many of his worics. But in some of his better productions, there is a peculiar delicacy of execution resembling Sas- soferrato. Several specimens of this kind are to be seen in the churches and galleries at Milan. Works. Milan, Brera, the Adora- tion of Kings : Santa Maria del Car- mine, a Madonna and Child: cathe- dral, in the sacristy, the Martyrdom of St Agnes. Bologna, Academy, the Adoration of the Shepherds. Reggio, San Procolo, fresco of the Last Judg- ment And in the Dresden Gallery, San Rocco administering to those sick of the Plague ; one of his most cele- brated works. (XofNozzo, MalvasiOj Lanzi.) PROCACCINI, Giuuo Cesarb, 6. at Bologna, about 1548, living in 1618. Lombard School. The son and scholar of Ercole, and brother of Camillo, and likewise an imitator of Correggio, whose works he studied at Parma; he commenced his career as a sculptor; He approaches nearest in style to Correggio, more especially in colour, and light and shade, in small cabinet pictures; some of these have passed as works by Correggio. He is con- sidered the most distinguished painter of his family ; but his works are very unequal. The churches and collec- tions at Milan, Genoa, Parma, dkc, abound with his works. Carlo Anto- nio, a third son of Ercole, was a distinguished landscape-painter; and Carlo's son, Ercole (1590-1676), called n Giovine, followed the style of his uncles. Andrea (1671-1734), probably of the same family, was a distinguished scholar of Carlo Maratta, at Rome. Works. Milan, church of Sant* An-