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 *cia; Birth of Virgin, S. Trinità; Madonna, Ascension, Pieve di Cento.—Malvasia, i. 173; Lanzi, iii. 42; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Gualandi, Guida, 138, 140, 166.

FONTANA, PROSPERO, born in Bologna in 1512, died in Rome in 1597. Bolognese school, pupil of Innocenzo da Imola; went to France to aid Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, but was taken ill and had to return. Painted chiefly in Bologna and in Rome. He was devoted to pleasure, and his many (chiefly historical) works are executed with little care. His best pictures are his portraits. Among his works are: Decorations in Vigna di Papa Giulio near Rome; Altarpiece, S. Salvatore, Bologna; Entombment, Bologna Gallery; Charity of S. Alexis, S. Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna; Holy Family, Dresden Gallery; Annunciation, Brera, Milan; Visitation, Estense Gallery, Modena.—Malvasia, i. 173; Lanzi, iii. 42; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ix. 95; xii. 111; xiii. 5, 183.

FONTANA, ROBERTO, born in Milan in 1844. Genre painter, pupil of Milan Academy. Medal, Milan, 1876. Works: Scene in Robert le Diable; Wooing; Æsop relating his Fables (1876).

FONTENAY, ALEXIS DALIGÉ DE, born in Paris, April 29, 1813. Landscape painter, pupil of Watelet and Hersent. Has won a good reputation as a faithful delineator of nature. Medals: 3d class, 1841; 2d class, 1844, 1861, and 1863. Works: View on the Grimsel Road (1841); View on Road to the Maladetta, Pyrenees (1843), Marseilles Museum; Environs of Luz (1844); Great Sulphur Mine (1845); Fort Royal (1847); Bernese Oberland (1848); Road from Bastia to Ajaccio (1852); Isle of Elba (1852), Montauban Museum; Farm and Castle (1855), Nantes Museum; Valley of Lauterbrunnen (1857), Montpellier Museum; Gulf of Ajaccio (1859), Strassburg Museum; Wetterhorn and Grindelwald (1861); Castle of Unspunnen (1863), Saint-Quentin Museum; View in Bernese Oberland, Gallery at Monaye (1863); View near Unterseen, Castle of Gaillard (1864), Lisieux Museum; Seine near Ruins of the Castle of Tancarville, Top of the Sulphur Mine in Guadaloupe (1865); Village of Unterseen, Church of St. Bernard de Comminges (1866); Village of Vezillon, High Tide between Havre and Honfleur (1868), Laval Museum; Seine between Rouen and Havre (1869); View in Valley of the Touque (1870); Road from Meyringen to Goutan (1872); Farm near Rouen (1874); Seine at Les Andelys (1875); Ruins of Castle in Valley of Lauterbrunnen (1876); Farm on Heights of Avranches(1877); Villiers (1878); Farm near Pontorson, Pic du Midi near Pau (1879); Coast of Honfleur, Farm in Normandy (1880); Farm in Picardy, View near Villiers-sur-Mer (1882); Squall on the Coast of Normandy, Cliffs at Puy (1883); Cliffs near Château of Dieppe (1884);	Last Judgment, Entrance to Dieppe (1885).

FONVILLE, HORACE, born at Lyons in 1832. Landscape painter, pupil of his father and of Appian. Works: Château de la Pape near Lyons (1833); View of Lyons (1840); Landscape in the Haut-Bugey (1864); At Rossillon, Ain (1870); Road in Mountains of Haut-Bugey (1874), Luxembourg Museum; Ain River at Neuville (1876); Souvenir of Virieux-le-Grand (1877); Landscape in Bugey (1879).

FOPPA, VINCENZO, the elder, born at Foppa, province of Pavia, died in Brescia in 1492. Lombard school; a disciple probably of Squarcione, but nothing known of him before his engagement in Milan in 1456, when he called himself a citizen of Brescia. In 1461 he was in Pavia, where he painted in 1462 frescos in the Carmine, and in 1465 a chapel in the Certosa. At a later date he worked in Savona and in Brescia. His earlier pictures show the prominent characteristics of the Paduan school, but in the course of years he shook off Mantegnesque peculiarities and gained the mastery which comes from long practice. Among his best extant works are the St. Sebastian, Brera, Milan, and the altarpiece in six panels in S.