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 u CAIRO— CALIARI. CAIROjCat;. Francesco, d.inVarese, in the Milanese, 1598, d. 1674. Lom- bard School. A pupil of Pier Fran- cesco Morazzone. He studied at Home, and also the works of Titian and of Paul Veronese at Venice, and deve- loped a good style: there are many excellent portraits by him. Works, Venice, Santa Maria degli Scalzi, Santa Teresa. Milan, tlie Brera, San Saverio, Santa Teresa. GALDARA, Poijdobo, b, at Gara- vaggio, about 1495, d. 1543. Lombard School. He is commonly called Poli- doro da Garavaggio, and is chiefly cele- brated for the ornamental works in ohiaroscuro, painted for Raphael in the Vatican : he was originally employed at the Vatican about 1512 as a labourer; Maturino, one of Raphael's assistants, discovered Polidoro's ability and fos- tered it. They worked together, and imitated ancient statues and bas-reliefs, and ancient sculptured ornaments of any kind. Few of these works remain, but some are preserved in prints, as the Niobe by Galestruzzi. He visited Naples after the sack of Rome in 1527, but settled finally at Messina, where he was assassinated by his servant. In Messina, Polidoro forsook bis classical chiaroscuro for a rich florid style, somewhat of the tenebrous school, and of a naturalist tendency. Eugler sug- gests (in his second edition) that Poli- doro was the first to indicate that natu- ralist style which afterwards became the basis of the Neapolitan School, and was carried to so great a length by Michelangelo da Garavaggio and Spag- uuoletto. Works. Naples, Studj Gallery, Ghrist bearing his Gross (mentioned by Va- sari as a master-piece). Rome, Gorsini Palace, drawing of the History of Niobe. Berlin Gallery, St. Luke. Louvre, scene from the History of Psyche. ( Vasari. ) GALDERARI, Gio. Mama, b. at Poi:denon6 about 1500, d. about 1564. Venetian School. A pnpil of Forde- none, whom he imitated so successfully that the works of the pupil have been mistaken for those of the master. He has executed some good works ia fresco at Montereale and Pordenone. (Xaitzi.) GALETTI, Giuseppe, 6. at Ferrara, about 1600, d. about 1660. Ferrarese School, called H Gremonese. He stu- died chiefly the works of Dossi and of Titian, and was a successful imitator of the latter. He painted Bacchanaliaa scenes and sometimes sacred subjects. At San Benedetto at Ferrara are St Mark, and the four doctors of the Ghurch, by Galetti. {Lanzi.) GALIARI, or Gagijari, Paolo, com- nionly called Paul Veronese, b. at Ve- rona, 1528, d. at Venice, April 20, 1588. Venetian School. Pupil of his uncle, Antpnio Badile. Venice was the chief scene of this great painter's career; Titian seems to have been his great mo- del, especially for colouring. Though not equal to Titian in the flesh-colouring and modelling, and inferior likewise in character and expression, he yet pos- sessed all the power of Titian as an ornamental painter in execution, and in the vivid brilliancy of his colouring; in the richness of his draperies and in the transparency of his shadows he surpassed in his best works all other masters of his school. He delighted to treat festive subjects in their most gorgeous aspect: this love of magnifi- cence was his passion, hence his scrip- tural pictures have no religious interest; as in the pictures of Rembrandt the costumes, whatever the subject, are those of his own times. All the pomp and splendour of the eastern merchant or oriental prince are displayed in the simplest representation from the Scrip- tures, -^sthetically Paul Veronese is essentially the painter of the Mag- nificent, in which he has yet scarcely been approached by any other master.