Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 4.djvu/89

 ROCH m 1560. The brethren of the Scuola had asked some of the chief painters of Venice to send in trial sketches for the centrepiece in the ceiling. Tintoretto produced a fin- ished painting instead of a sketch, and had it placed in the oval. Both the brethren and his fellow competitors were offended, but as he offered the picture as a present, they were obliged to accept it. Buskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 351 ; Osier, Tintoret- to, 51 ; Kidolfi, Marav., ii. 193. pupil of Julea Lefi-bvre and of Boulanger. Medals : 3d class, 1882 ; 2d class, and prix through the Streets of Rome (1882) ; An- dromache (1883); La Jacquerie (1885); Mad- ness of Nebuchadnezzar (1886). KunsU Chrouik, ss. 701 ; xxi. 294, 378 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, six. 258 ; xx. 234 ; xxi. 314. ROCKY MOUNTAINS, Albert ffienladl, James McHeury. A vast plain, with cotton- wood trees, oaks, and pines in the fore- ~l.~! ''"" i-- 1 i ff '-/' ! Kir 5fe^dds===^/r.' Ii i ^/^^sv^/j^ -^'^A .icz ,re^M^ St. Roch Giving Alms, Annibale Carracci, Dresden Gallery. ROCH, ST., IN THE HOSPITAL, Tinto- retto, S. Rocco, Venice ; canvas, H. about 10 ft. x25 ft. The Saint engaged in his minis- trations in the hospital. A very noble pict- ' ure, carefully composed and highly wrought, but a disgusting subject. Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 323 ; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 191. ROCH, ST., BEFORE THE POPE, Tin- toretto, S. Rocco, Venice ; canvas. A delight- ful picture in his best manner, but hastily painted. Ruskiu, Stones of Venice, iii. 321. ROCHEGROSSE, GEORGES, born at Versailles ; contemporary. History painter, ground, groups of wigwnms with Indians and ponies in middle distance, and beyond, a river ; in background, lofty snow-crowned mountains the highest peak Mount Lander. Painted in 1863. Kn graved by James D. Smillie. RODAKOWSKI, HEINRICH, born at Lemberg, Galicia, in 1823. One of the best portrait painters of the day, pupil of Cogniet in Paris, where he settled ; painted also sev- eral good history and genre pictures. Med- als : Paris, 1st class, 1852 ; 3d class, 1855 ; L. of Honour, 1861. Works : General Dein-
 * du Salon, 1883. Works : Vitellius dragged