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. VAGA—VANNUCCHI. 191 Raphael, but without the depth, vigour, and beauty of that great master. Fe- lino's facility of execution betrayed him latterly into a negligent and me- chanical manner; but there is much of Kaphael, and more of Andrea del Sarto, in his smaller oil pictures. The picture known as the Parnassus, for- merly in the collection of Charles I. of England, and attributed to Perino del Vaga, is now in the Louvre, and is in the catalogue restored to H Eosso, to whom, from the evidence of an old print, it belongs ; it is now called ** The Defiance of the Pierides." Perino del Yaga painted some excellent portraits ; that of the aged Cardinal Polo, in Eng- land, at Althorp, is full of character, but brown in colour. Works. Rome, in the Loggie of the Vatican, as part of the so-called Raphael's Bible, the Hebrews cross- ing the Jordan; the Taking of Je- richo ; the Fall of Jericho ; Joshua in conflict with the Amorites; Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac; Jacob Wrestling with the Angel ; Joseph and his Brethren ; the Birth, Baptism, and Last Supper, of our Lord: CastelP Sant' Angelo, frescoes : San Stefano del Cacco, Pietl^ fresco : San Marcello, frescoes: Borghese Gallery, Holy Fa- mily; a Madonna: Palazzo Doria Pam- fili, Galatea. Genoa, Doria Palace, fres- coes. Naples, Stucy Gallery, two Holy Families: Palazzo Salemo,Holy Family. Pisa, cathedral. Death of the Virgin, completed by Sogliani. In the Berlin Gallery are two pictures, one repre- senting Paul preaching at Athens ; the other, the Baptist preaching ; they are of the school of Raphael, and are con- sidered by Waagen to be possibly by Perino del Vaga. {VMari.) VANNI, Car. Francesco, 6. at Siena, 1563, d. Oct. 25, 1609. Sienese School. Scholar of his father and Archangelo Salimbeni, at Siena, and of Giovanni de' Vecchi, at Rome. He studied also and copied the works of Coireggio and Parmigiano, at Parma, but became eventually a decided follower of Ba- rocci. He was invited to Rome by Clement VUL, and painted the altar- piece of Simon Magus rebuked by Peter, for one of the chapels of St. Peter's, for which he was created Ca- vahere of the Abito di Cristo. Vanni painted so much in the style of Barocci that their works may be mistaken ; but, though equal to Barocci in colouring, he had less vigour of conception and less energy of execution : his drawing is correct, but less full than that of Barocci. He belonged to a distin- guished family of painters of Siena. Andrea di Vanni (1372-81) was pro- bably of the same family. His two sons, Michelangelo and Raphael Vanni, both attained the rank of Cavaliere ; the younger was the superior : he imi- tated Pietro da Cortona, and executed several meritorious works in Rome, where, in 1655, he was elected a member of the Academy of St. Luke. Francesoo etched a few plates. Works. Rome, Santa Maria in Val- licella, a Pieta : Santa Cecilia, in Tras- tevere, the Flagellation of Christ; and the Death of St. Cecilia. Siena, church of the Dominicans, San Raimondo walking on the sea. Others in Santa Maria dell' Umilta, at Pistoja : at Pisa, &c. Louvre, two pictures of the Repose in Egypt, and the Martyrdom of St Irene. {JBaldinucci, Gaye, Milanesi.) VANNI, Giovanni Battista, b. in 1599, d, 1660. Tuscan School. The scholar of Jacopo da Empoli and Christofano Allori. He was a good copyist, especially of the works of Correggio, Titian, and Paul Veronese. He was a good colourist. His master- piece is St Lawrence, in the church of San Simone, at Florence. {Baldi- nucci.) VANNUCCHI. [Sarto, Andrea DEL.]