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 jointly with Vasari in the ducal palace. After his pictures 388 engravings were made. Works: Scourging of Christ, Banquet of the Gods, Vienna Museum; Christ on the Cross, and several other scenes from the Passion, S. Annunziata, Florence; Martyrdom of the Thousand Saints, San Firenze, ib.; Christ and the Money Changers, S. Spirito, ib.; Scenes in Life of Christ (frescos), Oratorio S. Clemente, ib.; others in churches and palaces in Rome and Naples.—Immerzeel, iii. 118; Kramm, v. 1581; Nagler, xvii. 444.

STRAEHUBER, ALEXANDER, born at Mondsee, Salzkammergut, Feb. 28, 1814, died in Munich, Dec. 31, 1883. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Schnorr. Executed most of Kaulbach's cartoons in colours. Professor and honorary member of Munich Academy. Works: Two Scenes from Charlemagne's Life—after Schnorr's designs, Munich; cartoons for glass windows, Glasgow and Ratisbon Cathedrals; illustrations, which have done most to make him known.—Müller, 509; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 284.

STRAET. See Stradanus.

STRAFFORD, EARL OF, portrait, Anton van Dyck, Blenheim Palace; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. × 4 ft. 6 in. Lord Strafford, holding a letter in his hand and dictating an answer to his secretary, Sir Thomas Main-waring; seen to knees.—Waagen, Treasures, iii. 130.

STRAFFORD GOING TO EXECUTION, Paul Delaroche, Duke of Sutherland; canvas, H. 8 ft. 8 in. × 10 ft. 3 in. Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, Minister of Charles I., while being taken from the Tower of London to the place of execution (1641) stops beneath the dungeon of Archbishop Laud to ask his blessing. He is represented kneeling before the prison wall, with halberdiers and pikemen on each side of him, looking up to the window above, through the iron grating of which the prelate is putting out his hands in the act of benediction. Painted in 1835; Salon, 1837. San Donato sale, in Paris (1870), 30,000 francs.

STRASSGSCHWANDTNER, ANTON, born in Vienna in 1827, died there, March 5, 1881. Genre and animal painter, pupil of Vienna Academy under Steinfeld and Kupelwieser. First painted landscapes, then riding and hunting pictures, and military genre. Works: Plundering Cossacks (1847), Vienna Museum; Uhlan Outpost (1847), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Cavalry Skirmish (1861); Stone Cart (1870); Wallenstein's Cavalry in Ambush (1874).—Wurzbach, xxxix. 279.

STRASZYNSKI, LEONHARD DE, born at Tokarowka, near Kiev; contemporary. History painter, pupil of Markow. Works: King Stanislaus in Baccianelli's Studio (1859); Wallenstein in Bohemia (1862); Murder of Bishop of Liège (1863).

STRATONICE, Dominique Ingres, Duc d'Aumale, Chantilly; canvas. Antiochus Soter, son of Seleucus Nicator, King of Syria, having fallen seriously ill, Erasistratus, the King's physician, suspecting the cause, orders the ladies of the palace to come in one by one, and discovers by the beating of his patient's heart that he is in love with his beautiful step-mother, Queen Stratonice. The King, rather than lose his son, broke the bonds which bound him to Stratonice and permitted Antiochus to marry her. In the picture, Erasistratus is standing beside the bed of Antiochus, with his left hand upon his patient's heart, the other slightly raised in astonishment as he gazes at Stratonice, standing at left with her face averted. King Seleucus, kneeling beside his son's couch, with his head buried in the drapery, sees nothing of the drama before him. Ordered in 1834 by Duc d'Orléans; finished in Rome in 1840; acquired in 1853 by Prince Demidoff for 63,000 francs; sold to Duc d'Aumale. Replica (1860), with changes, Comtesse Duchâtel; another (1866), with changes, Montpellier Museum, bought from Mme. Ingres for 20,000 francs. Original sketch, Louvre, Paris. Engraved by