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 VANNUTELLI, SCIPIONE, Cavaliere, born in Rome; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil in Vienna of Wurzinger, afterwards in Paris of Heilbuth. Medal: Paris, 1864. Works: Carnival in Venice; Gabrielle d'Estrées; Italian Danaë; The Night; Agreeable Reading; Procession in Venice; Novices in a Roman Church, Trio in the Garden (1883).

VARCHI, BENEDETTO, portrait, Titian, Vienna Museum; canvas, H. 3 ft. 8 in. × 3 ft. Painted about 1550. Repainted about the face.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 426.

VARGAS, LUIS DE, born in Seville in 1502, died there in 1568. Spanish school; pupil of Diego de la Barrera; went to Italy about 1527, according to Cean Bermudez, and studied with Perino del Vaga (?); returned to Seville after an absence of twenty-eight years. He is remarkable for grandeur and simplicity of design, and for the purity and grace of his female heads; his drawing too is correct, and his colouring good. Works: Nativity (1555), and La Gamba (1561), Cathedral of Seville.—Stirling, i. 307; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole.

VARIN, QUENTIN, born at Amiens in 1580, died about 1645. French school; history painter, pupil of Gagex and Bonaventura in Amiens and Beauvais, and then went to Paris, where he became an able painter, and the master of Nicolas Poussin. Works: Christ in the Temple, St. Germain des Prés, Paris; St. Charles Borromeo, St. Jacques de la Boucherie, ib.—Ch. Blanc, École française.

VARLEY, CORNELIUS, born at Hackney, near London, Nov. 21, 1781, died at Highbury, Oct. 2, 1873. Landscape painter in water-colours, brother and pupil of John Varley; exhibited first at the Royal Academy in 1803, and in the following year was one of the foundation members of the Water Colour Society. He painted chiefly views in Ireland and Wales and classical scenery. A younger brother, William Fleetwood Varley (1785-1856), was a water-colour painter and teacher of drawing at Oxford.

VARLEY, JOHN, born at Hackney, near London, Aug. 17, 1778, died Nov. 17, 1842. Landscape painter in water-colours; studied first under a portrait painter and then with an architectural draughtsman; exhibited first, in 1798, View of Peterborough Cathedral. He exhibited at the Royal Academy until 1804, when he became one of the foundation members of the Water Colour Society. He painted many views in Wales and on the Thames, was a successful teacher, and the author of several drawing-books and other works. His son, Albert Fleetwood Varley (1804-76), was also a water-colour painter and teacher.

VARONI (Varonne, Varrone), JOHANN, born at Bellinzona, Canton Tessino, Switzerland, in 1832. Landscape painter, pupil of Vienna Academy and of Josef Höger; settled in Vienna, whence he made frequent study trips into the Austrian Alps, to Italy, and Switzerland. Works: View of Ariccia, do. in Roman Campagna, do. near Olevano, Ruins of Pæstum (1855); Pine Woods near Frascati (1856); Well in the Campagna, St. Gotthard (1858); Well near Grotta Ferrata, View of Vienna (1860); Nassfeld near Gastein, Temple of Concordia near Girgente (1861); St. Bernardino, Switzerland (1862); Views in Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, and Switzerland (1863-73); Költschach Valley near Gastein (1877).—Wurzbach, xlix. 287.

VAROTARI, ALESSANDRO. See Padovanino.

VASARI, GIORGIO, born at Arezzo, July 30, 1511, died in Florence, June 27, 1574. Florentine school; pupil of his father, Antonio Vasari, and afterwards of Andrea del Sarto and of Michelangelo. Went to Rome with Cardinal Ippolito de' Medi