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 190 UDINE— VAGA. had just then been disoovered; and, under the direction of his master, Gio- vanni, assisted by these remains, con- stituting the chief type of the cinque- cento revival in painting, executed the greater portion of the arabesque and grotesque decorations of the Loggie, and apartments of the Vatican. He assisted Raphael in other works, as in the famous St. Cecilia at Bologna, and the Cartoons at Hampton Court, in this case chiefly the frame-work : also in the ornamental portions of the de- corations of the Famesina. He exe- cuted stuccoes as well as paintings; the decorations in the first arcade of the lower story of the Loggie, and the frieze with Children playing in the Villa Madama, containing the best ex- amples of this decorative work at Home, are among his own more inde- pendent works. There are some of his decorations in the Grimani Palace at Venice; and the palace of the Arch- bishop at Udine is also decorated in the same style. The works in Santa Maria in Cividale, and in Santa Maria di Castello in Udine, mentioned by Vasari, have long since perished. (Va- tari,) VACCARO, Andrea, b, at Naples, 1598, d. 1670. Neapolitan School. Scholar of Girolamo Imparato and of Massimo Stanzioni. He was first an imitator of Michelangelo da Caravaggio, and executed some excellent copies of that master. Through the influence of Stanzioni, Andrea subsequently abandoned the manner of Caravaggio, and imitated the style of Guido, and in this taste his principal works are executed. The Stucy Gallery at Na- ples contains a Holy Family and se- veral pictures by Vaccaro. His most reputed works are the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, in the Fieik de' Turchini; and the Resurrection, and the Coronation and the Assump- tion of the Virgin, in the church del Smo. Rosario : others in the church of the Theatines. Vaccaro was the first Neapolitan painter who established a life school; and, after the death of Stanzioni, was the best master of the Neapolitan School. {Dominici,) VAGA, Pebino del, called also BuoNACcoBsi, his family name, 6. at Florence, June 28, 1500, d. at Borne, Oct 19, 1547. Roman School. He was early instructed by Ridolfo Ghir- landejo, at Florence. He subseqaently went, with a painter of the name of Vaga, to Rome, where he studied the works of Michelangelo and the antique, and became the scholar of Raphael. He assisted Giovanni da Udine in the stucco and arabesque decorations of the Loggie of the Vatican, where he also executed some of the biblical subjects from the designs of RaphaeL Perino painted likewise the figures of the planets in the great hall of the Appartamento Borgia, in the Vatican, from the drawings of Raphael. After the sack of Rome, in 1527, this painter established himself for some time at Genoa, where he introduced the Roman style, and founded a new schooL With the assistance of his scholars he orna- mented the Dona Palace at Genoa, in the style of the decorations of the Palazzo del T^, by Giulio Romano, at Mantua. The designs of the staircase display the most fanciful beauty of the cinquecento arabesque, and the stucco work is of the most varied and graceful character. In the apartments are his- torical and mythological representa- tions; some are by Perino himself, others were executed from his designs : owing, however, to the comparative in- capacity of his assistants, these works are of very unequal merit. In this master's pictures of Madonnas and other subjects of the kind, we find a more or less successful imitation of