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 SPAGNUOLO named him Spagnoletto (little Spaniard). A cardinal took pity upon him, clothed him, and attached him to his household, but Spagnoletto soon ran away, declaring that he needed the spur of poverty to make him a good artist. After studying under Cara- vaggio he went to Parma, where the grace of Correggio temporarily influenced him; but he soon returned to the style of Cara- vaggio, which he even exaggerated. Hav- ing settled in Naples, where he married the daughter of a rich picture-dealer, he was appointed court painter by the Spanish viceroy, his fellow-countryman, and soon knighted by Innocent X. in 1644. Bermu- dez repudiates the story that he disappeared from Naples on account of the seduction of his daughter, Maria Blanca, who was also a good painter, by Don John of Austria. Among his numerous works are : Madonna, Beggar, Louvre, Paris ; Dead Christ, Shep- herd with a Lamb, National Gallery, Lon- don ; Diogenes with the Lantern (1637), St. Mary of Egypt (1641), Deliverance of Peter (1642), Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, do. of St. Sheep, Susanna and Lawrence, Jacob tending Laban's seven others, Dresden Museum ; the Elders, Stadel Gallery, Frankfort ; his Portrait, St. Jerome, Uffizi, Florence ; Mathematician, Philosoph- er, Palazzo Brignole, Gen- oa ; Martyrdom of St. Bar- tholomew, Palazzo Spinola, ib.; Martyrdom of St. Se- bastian, St. Jerome, Silenus and Satyrs, Naples Muse- um ; Communion of the Apostles, and Descent from the Cross, S. Martin e, Na- ples ; Twelve Apostles, Par- ma Museum ; St. Jerome, Quirinal, Rome; St. Jerome, Academy of St. Luke, ib. ; St. Stanislas with Infant Jesus, Palazzo Borghese, ib. ; St. Jerome, St. Bartho- found himself possessed of wealth and hon- ' lomew, Palazzo Colonna, ib.; Death of Ado- ours, which enabled him to live like a nis, St. Jerome, Palazzo Corsini, ib. ; Hercu- Spalatro, Washington Allston, H. R. Bishop, New York. grandee and entertain nobles and princes in his palace. Notwithstanding his supreme position he was jealous of the advancement of others, and became chief of the infamous les and Antaeus, Turin Gallery ; Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, two St. Jeromes, and St. Procopius, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; St. Bartholomew, Jacob's Dream, Martyrdom cabal of Naples to make war, even to the of St. Bartholomew, St. Francis, Hermit at knife, on painters of rival schools employed in Naples. By the aid of his tools (Corren- zio and Caracciolo), Annibale Carracci, Ca- valiere d' Arpino, Guido, Gessi, and Domeni- chiiio were successively driven away, while Domenichino's death was probably hastened by poison. Eibera was made a member of the Academy of St. Luke in 1630, and was Prayer, Conception, and fifty others, Madrid Museum ; Joseph in Prison, Escorial. Ceau Bermudez, iv. 184 ; Lanzi, ii. 32 ; Ch. Blanc, cole espagnole ; Burckhardt, 767, 774 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1882), xxv. 40. SPAGNUOLO. SPALATRO, See Spagna. or Vision of the Bloody Hand, Washington Allston, H. R. Bishop, 208