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 ILLUSIONS Prince Eugene ; Watch on the Rhine. Miiller, 274. ILLUSIONS, LOST (Illusions perdues), ' Charles Gabriel Glryre, lately in Luxem- bourg, Paris ; canvas, H. 4 ft. in. x 7 ft. 11 in. A man, seated in the twilight on a de- serted shore, sees pass before him on the river a boat filled with young men and maidens crowned with flowers lost illusions which the current is hurrying into the night. Salon, 1843 ; conceived, according to the painter's diary, on the Nile, opposite Abydos, in 1835. Eepliea (2 ft. 10 in. x 4 ( ft. 11 in.), W. T. Walters, Baltimore. Sir Arthur Helps, Friends in Council ; Art Treas. of America, i. 89. niEll, EDOUARl), born in Avignon, Dec. 25, 1820, died in Haarlem, June 13, 1881. Landscape painter, self-taught. Painted truthful landscapes, usually taken from central France ; travelled in the East, especially in Egypt and Algeria. Medals : 18G5 ; 2d class, 1S73. Works : Road in Provence (1850); lUione Plain in Provence, Landscape near Marseilles (1853) ; Ponds of Soumabre, The Hhone (1855) ; Pond of Soumabre (1857), Neuehatel Museum ; Syc- amores on the Road to the Pyramids, Island of Philie, Woods of Doums, Syca- mores at Ghizeh, Environs of Cairo (1857) ; Hills of St. Marguerite, Mas do Barcme, The Rhone (1859) ; Pond of Soumabre, The Pont du Gard, Edge of the Woods of Mon- tcspin (1801) ; Island of Levins, Gulf of Juan, Masdes Aubes (18(13) ; Svcamores at Gliixeh, View in 1 Jerry (1804) ; Pond of Foul-dines (1805) ; Ruins of Cm/an t, (1805), Neuehatel Museum ; Island of St. Honor.it, The Creuze (1800) ; Valley of Venasque, Itamparts of Aigues-Mortes (1807) ; Circus of Frejus, Road of Crozant (1808) ; Environs of San Raphael, Bridge of San Raphael (1809) ; Sluice of the Pond of Sault, View in Berry (1870) ; The Creuze, Quay of Zat- tere in Venice (1872) ; Oak-Tree of Voul- liers, Sea View (1873) ; Pond of Hiot, Piedi- monte, Shore of St. Jean d'Orbeiter (1874) ; The Creuze, Plain of Cayeux, Marshes of the Bay of the Somme (1875) ; Oaks of Dauphiny, Bay of the Somme (1876); Bridge of Saint-Benezet, Avignon Museum ; Even- ing on Lagunes of Venice, Rocks near Cassis Provence, Neuehatel Museum. Bellier, i. 802 ; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xx. 505. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. See Con- ception, IMOLA, GIOVANNI DA. See Ferrelli. IMOLA, INNOCENZO DA, born at Imola in 1494, died at Bologna about 1550. Bo- lognese school. Real name Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci ; pupil in Bologna of Fran- cesco Francia, and in Florence of Mariotto Albertinelli, in whose style he painted (1517) the Madonna with Angels and Saints, Bologna Gallery. Later he became an imi- tator of Raphael. On his return from Flor- ence, executed many works at Imola and Bologna. Among the latter the most im- portant are frescos of the Death and Assump- tion of the Virgin (1519), in S. Michele in Bosco ; Madonna in Glory with Saints and Angels, Gallery ; Annunciation, Servi ; Cru- cifix (1549), S. Salvatoro ; Madonna with Saints, S. Matteo ; Madonna with Kneeling Donors, Gallery ; Marriage of St. Catharine (1530), S. Giacomo Maggiore. There is an altarpiece (1520) by Imola in the Duomo, Faenza ; another in the Berlin Museum ; a third in the Munich Gallery ; and a Madonna in the Carlsruhe Gallery. Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 185 ; Lermolieff, 05, 282 ; Gualandi, Guida di Bologna ; Lanzi, iii. 30 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole bolonaise ; Liibke, Gesch. der. ital. Mai., ii. 377. IMPICCATI, ANDREA DEGLI. See Gastagno. INCENDIO DEL BORGO, fiaplia,'!, Stan/.a dell' Incendio, Vatican ; fresco, arched top. The district of St. Peter called the Borgo Vecchio in flames (A.D. 847), the fire even threatening the Church of St. Peter, the old facade of which is seen in back- ground ; all efforts to stay the conflagration are vain until Leo Fv T. appears in the Log- gia of the Vatican (now destroyed) and makes the sign of the cross, when, accord- 312