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 GUIDO cifixion of St. Peter, he coupled it with the the Well, Death of Cleopatra, Charity, St. command that it should be iu the manner Elizabeth, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; Cumean of that painter. Guido obeyed, but he gave : Sibyl, Bradamante and Fiordaspina, portrait his composition a grandeur and dignity be- of Guido, Madonna with St. John, Virgin, yond the powers of Caravaggio. Paul V. Uffizi, ib. ; Christ on the Cross and Saints, employed him to decorate the private chapel Lucca Gallery ; SS. Peter and Paul, Apostle in the Palace of Monte Cavallo, a work which Reading, Brera, Milan ; Christ on the Cross, gained him groat reputation and made him Modena Gallery ; Atalanta's Race, Four main r enemies, even his friend Albani be- j Seasons, Infant Christ, Nausicaii, Vanity coming inimical when he found that Guide's and Modesty, Museum, Naples ; Nativity, S. fame was likely to exceed his own. After Martino, ib. ; John Baptist, Madonna, Fame, an absence in Rome of twenty years, Guido j St. Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine, Apollo returned to Bologna, where he painted the, and Marsyas, Group of Cherubs, Lucretia, Massacre of the Innocents for S. Domenieo, Turin Gallery; David and Goliath, Annun- iiow in the Bologna Gallery, and St. -Paul j ciation, Purification of Virgin, Madonna, reproving St. Peter, for the Palazzo Zam-, Madonna and St. John, Cltrist and Saniari- pieri, now in the Brera, Milan. Paul V. tan Woman, Christ giving Keys to Peter, soon induced him to return to Rome, where Christ in the Garden, Kcce Homo, Mayda- he executed works in S. M. Maggiore and leu (?), St. Sebastian, Union of Design and other public buildings, his most famous one Colour, Hercules and the Hydra, Hercules being the fresco Aurora, in the pavilion of and Achelous, Rape of Dejanira, Death of the Palazzo Rospigliosi. Guide's produc-, Hercules, Rape of Helen, Sleep of Jesus (at- tions vary much in manner according to the tributed), Louvre, Paris ; Lucretia, Cleo- time of their execution, and may be assigned patra, Madonna de la Silla, St. Sebastian, St. to three different periods : The first, marked James, Assumption, St. Jerome in the by strong contrasts of light and shade; the Desert, Martyrdom of St. Apollonia, Mag- second or transition period, stronger and dalen, and others, Madrid Museum ; St. more natural ; the third, pale-gray tones ! Jerome, Magdalen, Youthful Christ and St. and insipid sentiment. Works : Massacre j John, Lot and his Daughters, Susannah and of Innocents, Madonna della Pieta, Clirixt on the Elders, Coronation of the Virgin, Ecce the Cross, Samson Victorious, St. Sebastian, Homo, National Gallery, London ; St. John Madonna of the Rosary, Coronation of Vir- iu the Wilderness, St. Sebastian, Dulwich (/in, Ecce Homo, Bologna Gallery ; Bacchus Gallery ; Venus and Graces, Ecce Homo, and Ariadne, Fortune, Cupid, Accademia di National Gallery, Edinburgh ; Venus and S. Luca, Rome ; portrait of Beatrice C'enci (?), Cupid, Nin us and Semiramis, Ecce Homo Palazzo Barberini, ib. ; Concert of Angels, (2), Christ crowned with Thorns (2), Christ Cappella di S. Silvia, near S. Gregorio, ib. ; appearing to Virgin, Madonna in Adoration, St. Andrew adoring Cross, S. Andrea, ib. ; Madonna with Saints, Bacchus, Dresden Head of Joseph, Palazzo Borghese, ib. ; St. Gallery ; Madonna and Saints, Berlin Mu- Sebastian, Capitol Gallery, ib. ; Salome, seum ; Cleopatra, Cassel Gallery ; St. Je- study for Crucifixion of St. Peter, Ecce ! rome, Apollo and Marsyas, Assumption, Mu- Homo, Mater Dolorosa, St. John, Con tern- nich Gallery ; Magdalen, Presentation in plation, Palazzo Corsini, ib.; Madonna, Pa- Temple, Baptism of Christ, Vienna Museum ; lazzo Doria, ib. ; A urora, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Adoration of Shepherds, Jupiter and Anti- ib. ; Rape of Helen, portrait of Cardinal : ope, Descent from Cross, Liechtenstein Gal- Spada, Palazzo Spada, ib. ; Madonna in lery, Vienna ; David and Goliath, Adoration Glory and Saints, Crucifixion of St. Peter, of Mayi, St. Josejjh and Infant Christ, Ma- Vaticau, ib. ; Bacchus, St. Peter, Rebecca at donna and St. Francis, St. Peter, Dispute of 188