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 painter, professor at Bologna Academy, won several medals. Works: Tasso reading his Poem to Leonora; Daughter of Jephtha; The brazen Serpent.

FERRARI, GREGORIO DE', born at Porto Maurizio in 1644, died at Genoa in 1726. Genoese school; history painter, pupil of Il Sarzana; studied in Parma works of Correggio, whom he imitated successfully; was much employed in Genoa, Turin, and Marseilles. Works: Apollo and the Muses, Plato and Aristotle with their Scholars, Genoa University; St. Michael, in Madonna delle Vigne, Genoa; others in Palazzo Balbi, Genoa. His son, Lorenzo (1680-1744), was a still better imitator of Correggio, and excelled in fresco; works in Palazzo Doria, Palazzo Carega, and in churches, Genoa.—Ch. Blanc, École génoise; Lanzi (Roscoe), iii. 258, 281; Nagler, iv. 291.

FERRARI, LUCA, called Luca da Reggio, born at Reggio, in 1603, died at Padua in 1652. Venetian school; history painter, pupil of Guido Reni; lived and taught in Padua, among his pupils being Minorello and Cirello. Works: Pietà, S. Antonio, Padua; The Plague (1630), The Dominicans, Padua; Magdalen, Death of Cleopatra, Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus, Estense Gallery, Modena; Painting crowned by Fame, Bordeaux Museum.—Lanzi (Roscoe), ii. 267, 363.

FERRETTI, GIOVANNI DOMENICO, called da Imola, born at Florence in 1692. Florentine school; history painter, pupil of Giovanni Gioseffo del Sole; painted mostly for the churches and palaces of Florence, Pisa, Leghorn, Siena, Pistoja, and Imola. Among his best works are a Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew in S. Bartolommeo, Pisa, and the cupola painting in S. Filippo Neri, Pistoja.

FERRI, CIRO, born in Rome in 1634, died there, Sept. 13, 1689. Roman school; history painter, pupil of Pietro da Cortona, whose style he imitated so closely that it is difficult to distinguish his work from that of his master. He finished Cortona's frescos in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, and other uncompleted works in Rome. His best original works are the ceiling of the Annunziata, baroque style, and the cupola of S. Agnese in the Piazza Navona, Rome, which he left unfinished at his death. Works: Repose in Egypt, Madonna with St. Martina, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Christ appearing to Magdalen, Vienna Museum; Marriage of the Virgin, Amsterdam Museum; Rape of Helen, Darmstadt Museum; St. Theresa, Oldenburg Gallery; David and Saul, Copenhagen Gallery; Christ on the Cross, Alexander reading Homer, Artist's portrait, Uffizi, Florence; Coriolanus and his Family, Roman Warrior, Estense Gallery, Modena; Vision of St. Catherine of Siena, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Triumph of Bacchus, Hampton Court.—Lanzi, i. 498; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 149, 768.

FERRIER, (JOSEPH MARIE AUGUSTIN) GABRIEL, born at Nîmes, Sept. 29, 1847. French school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran; won grand prix de Rome in 1872. Medals: 2d class, 1876; 1st class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1884. Works: Greek Improviser, B.C. 30 (1872); Abduction of Ganymede (1875); David Conqueror of Goliath, Nîmes Museum; David and Bathsheba (1876), Martyrdom of