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 28 BOlOGNA— BONIFAZIO. BOLOGNA, SiHOKE da, called Dai Grocifissi, paintfed in 1377. Bolognese School. The pupil of Franco Bo- lognese. There are still some remains of his works, excellent for their time, in San Stefano, and in San Michele in BoBco. BOLOGNA, YiTALE da, called Dalle Madonne, painted 1320-1345. Bo- lognese School. The pupil of Franco Bolognese. Works, Bologna, Malvezzi Palace, St Benedict BOLOGNINI, Gio. Battista, 6. 1611, d, 1688. Bolognese School. A pupil, imitator, and copyist of Guide Reni. He engraved also several of Ms pictures. BOMBELLI, Sebastiano, (. at Udine, in 1635, Hving in 1716. Ve- netian School. A pupil of Guercino, and an admirable copyist of the pic- tures of Paul Veronese. He painted chiefly portraits, for which he acquired a great reputation in and out of Italy. His portraits have more of the deli- cacy of Guide than^he force of Guer- cino. Owing to the use of a particular varnish of his own, it is said, his pic- tures have become obscured by time, and' by the same means he injured several old pictures to which he ap- plied it {Lanzi,) BONACCORSL [Vaga.] BONATTI, Gio., called Giovannino del Pio, h. at Ferrara, 1635, d. 1681. Ferrarese School. He studied first under Guercino, and afterwards imder Pietro Francesco Mola in Eome, where he was one of the principal rivals of Carlo Maratta. Works, Bome, the Capitol, Sisera and Jael; Binaldo and Armida: Chiesa Nuova : Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. BONCUOBE, Gio. Battista, ft. at Campliinthe Abruzzi, 1643, d, 1699. Boman School. Studied at Bome under AlbanL {Pascoli,') BONESl, Gio. Gebolauo, h. at Bo- logna, 1653, d, 1725. Bolognese SchooL A pupil of Gio. Viani, but he became an imitator of CignanL {ZanoUi.) BONFIGLI, Benedetto, ft. at Pe- rugia, about 1420, still living in 1496. Umbrian School. One of ihe most eminent painters of Perugia, and Pietro Perugino's master. Though his figures are frequently stiff and hard, we find a delicacy of execution in the back- grounds, and a correctness of per- spective, very uncommon at that time; in the landscape background Bonfigli was perhaps the best of his period. In the figure he was very inferior to Giovanni da Fiesole, or to Gentile da Fabriano. Works, Perugia, San Domenico, Adoration of the Kings (1460) : Pa- lazzo del Consiglio, frescoes of San Ludovico and Sant Ercolaneo, 1454. i^Pascoli,) BONI, GucoMO, h. at Bologna, 1688, d, 1766. Bolognese School. A pupil of Cignani, and also of Marc Antonio Franceschini, whom he as- sisted at Eome and Genoa, where Boni executed his chief works ; for the churches, and the palaces of the no- bility, in fresco and in oiL BONIFAZIO of Verona, commonly called Bonifazio Veneziano, ft. at Ve- rona, in 1491, d, 1553. He was one of the principal of Titian's scholars and imitators, and executed many works in Venice, but hard in character compared with the pictures of his master, and other of the great cinqutcento painters. Bonifazio's pictures in a measure com- bine the simplicity or crudeness, per- haps, of the quattrocef^j with the ful- ness of form and the powerful effect of light and shade and colour of the cinquecento. A .discrepancy of dates seems to establish the fact that there must have been two painters of this name, whose works are now con- founded. Works, Venice, the Academy, four-