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CMded 8p«d& H first otfttuist. On 3 April, 1736, he was daoted moutro di cappdla, though Pollorolo, Por- pm, and Porta were formidable rivals for the much' eoveted post, with a salary of 400 ducats. Between tlw TMIS 1703 and 1730 he composed numeroua HiaiiM II and motets, especially his "Miserere", which supplantod the vmsion of Legrenii and is still sung at St. Mark's on Holy Thursday. Lottl also comp^ed twHity-nven operas (1693-1717), and he spent two years at Dresden, producing various works. After his return to Venioe, in November, 1719, be gave up secu- lar writing, and devoted himself solely to church and diMnber musie. Had he continue<l at operatic writ- ing his financial success would have been considerable, but hs preferred his post as maetiro at St. Mark's. One inddent in his career was the controversy over a mad- rigal which Bononcini claimed and which, it is said, led to that eminent composer leaving London, but it ia now genenUly believed that Bononcini was wronged in the matter, as iiaally there was

7 LDUCBEDZ

many Rapbaelistio characteristics. He first reached Bergamo, the place with which his name is so closelv connected, in 1513, spent some five years there, ana, after a visit to Venice in 1523, returned sgain to the same place. In 1512 and in 1526 he was painting at Jesi, ttic two works executed in the latter year being of high importance. A wonderful picture is the great "Crucifixion", painted at Monte San Giusto in 1531. In the following year he was in Venice, and a couple of years afterwards af!;ain in Bergamo. Manv of his finest pictures were painted for small rural towns, puch as Cingoli, Mogliano, Trescoire, and Jeai. Fortunately most of his works are dated, and he left behind bim an account book, which ho com- menced in 1539, and in which he records the names of his later pictures. This book he kept down to within a few months of his death. There are a few of hiA drawings in existence, notably at (Thatsworth, Wilton House, the Uflizi, and Vienna. Almost all his latest productions are at Loreto, but during the last three years of his life, he appears to have laid aside his brush.

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a jear receiving ro^ patronage. Lotti was an ex- oellmt teacher, as is evident from his many famous pu- [rila,e.g.,Blarcello,

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Gasparini Galuppi. ne was taken seriously ill in 1736, but lin- gered until 5 Jan- uary, 1740, aikd was interred in the ehunh of St. The

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H destroyed with the church in 1851. Quo*!, Dia. oj Jfwie and Afuncioni. new ed. (LondoD, 1B06>; EmiBR, ChttUraitxilioa (IDOO-Ol); Bdhnkt, Onitral BUon 'I MiUK Ooniloa, 1789).

W. H. GRAlTAN-FLOOn.

Lotto, LoBEKZO, Italian portrait painter, b. at Veniee, 1480; d. at Loreto, l.'i5G. This eminent artist was one of the best portrait painters who ever Uvad, and occupies an ahnost unique position, es- pseiallT amongst Italian artists^ for his extraordinary skill in detectmg the pecnlianties of personal char- aetv and his power of setting tbcm forth in full ac- eord with the temperament and mood of his sitters. He was a great oolourist, and posse»>ed of a passionate admiration for the beautiful, with a somewhat definite tendency towards the ecstaticandmystieal, in religion. He appears to have Iteen a man of strong personal Eaith, and had a sincere devotion to I^orcto and its fntit relic, the Holy House, spending his final years

and from that place he went to Ifecanali in 1508 to paint an important altar-piece. We do not know who was his master, but his work rei'cals affinity with that of Alvise Vivarini. He is belic^'ed to have painted some frescoes in the upper floor of the Vatican m 1509, but, whether or not these were executed, he evidently studied the work of Raphael when in Rome, as in his own paintings from 1512 to 1525 there arc

(BeniDmu.lTU:iliVA- MiLANEHi (Flomico,

Louchenx, the would-be Kuchin of some ethnol- of^ists, and the Tukiulh of the Protectant missionaries; Richardson called them Quarrellers. They call them- selves generally Dindjyc (men) and form an aggregate of closely related triht-s. a sort, of ethnographic con- federation, the most north-western of all the Wa6 divisions. Their habitat extends from Anderson River in the east to the western extremity of Alaska. Eiaat of the Rocky Mountains their soutliern frontier is to-day al>oiit 67" N. lat., and we^t of thai range their territory reaches somewhat more to the south. Practically the whole interior of Alaska h claime on the left bank of the Yukon, as far as Tanana River; the Tiinana, along the river called after them; the Kut'qa-ktit'ciin, at the eonfltieneo of the Porcupine; the Gcnx liu Lnrffc, or JTatee-kut'nin, from the Porcupine to the Romanoff Mountains; the Vocn- kut'qin, or People of the Lake; the Tsa-'ke-kut'qio.