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 Venetian masters. Works: Nativity, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, Coronation of the Virgin, Crucifixion, Berlin Museum; Nativity, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Dresden Gallery; St. Thomas Aquinas Enthroned (1520), S. Silvestro, Venice; Adoration of the Magi, Manfrini Gallery, ib.; Resurrection (early work), Last Supper (1549), S. Martino, ib.; Head of Christ, A Bishop, Academy, ib.; Crucifixion, Adoration of the Shepherds, Museo Civico, Verona; Coronation of the Virgin, God Father and Holy Family, Museo Civico, Padua; several in Bergamo Gallery; Nativity, Resurrection, Basle Museum.—Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 624.

GIROLAMO DA SERMONETA, born at Sermoneta about 1510 (?), died in Rome about 1580. Umbrian school. Real name Girolamo Siciolante; pupil of Perino del Vaga, whom he assisted in his frescos in Castello S. Angelo and in other works. Employed by Gregory XIII. in the decorations of the Sala Regia in the Vatican; also executed works in many churches in Rome. His best work is the Madonna and Saints, in S. Bartolommeo, Ancona. Said to have been a good portrait painter. His style is antiquated, more like that of the Peruginesques than of any of his contemporaries.—Vasari, ed. Le Mon., x. 170, 185; ed. Mil., vii. 571; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.

GIROLAMO DA TREVISO, the elder, of Padua, latter half of 15th century. Venetian school. Probable pupil of Squarcione, but painted chiefly at Treviso, where he is said to have finished an altarpiece and frescos in S. Niccolò in 1470. His oldest known picture is the Death of the Virgin, at Lonigo, painted in 1478. Better than this is the Christ at the Column, in Casa Rinaldi, Treviso, in which there is an echo of Antonello da Messina. Virgin with Saints, Duomo, Treviso (1487).—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 355; Kugler (Eastlake), i. 294.

GIROLAMO DA TREVISO, the younger. See Pennacchi, Girolamo di Pier' Maria.

GIRON, CHARLES, born at Geneva; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel. Medals: 3d class, 1879; 2d class, 1883. Works: Education of Bacchus, Musée Rath, Geneva; The Two Sisters, Mary (1883); Portraits.

GIRONDISTS, LAST OF THE, Karl von Piloty, George A. Drummond, Montreal; canvas. Scene: the Place de la Revolution, now called Place de la Concorde, with the guillotine in background, left; in front, the Girondists dragged to execution in carts, amid the jeers of the fishwives, who sit, knitting in hand, on platforms under umbrellas. In the rear cart is the dead body of Valazé, who stabbed himself with a concealed dagger on the passing of the sentence. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America, ii. 66.

GIROUX, ANDRÉ, born in Paris, April 30, 1801. Genre and landscape painter, son and pupil of the animal painter, Achille G., of Thibault, and of the École des Beaux Arts; won grand prix de Rome in 1825. Medals: 2d class, 1822; 1st class, 1831; L. of Honour, 1837. Works: Preparing the Market (1819); The Basement, Stable, Market by the Sea-shore (1822); Fish-Market, Orpheus and Eurydice (1824); View of Capri (1827); View in the Sabine Country, Shepherd of Casaprota, Sixtus V. and the Gypsy Women (1831); View at Larco Oscuro near Rome (1831), Douai Museum; Plain of Grésivaudan near Grenoble (1834), Luxembourg Museum; French Alps (1837), Ministry of Interior, Paris; Ruins of Resti, Châlets (1837); Knife-Grinder's Shop (1857); Ravine of Golling in Austria (1863); Valley of Grésivaudan near Grenoble (1866); Valley of the Dranse in Savoy (1868); Valley of Maglan in Savoy, Mill at Vichy, View at Willegen, Switzerland (1874); Landscape, Ravené Gallery, Berlin.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 663; Meyer, Gesch., 772.

GIRSCHER, BERNHARD, born at Rothenburg, Silesia, in 1822, died in 1870. Landscape painter, pupil in Breslau of Resch, went to Munich in 1849, studied four years there and from nature in the Bavarian Highlands and the Tyrol; lived some time at