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 in 1560. The brethren of the Scuola had asked some of the chief painters of Venice to send in trial sketches for the centrepiece in the ceiling. Tintoretto produced a finished painting instead of a sketch, and had it placed in the oval. Both the brethren and his fellow competitors were offended, but as he offered the picture as a present, they were obliged to accept it.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 351; Osler, Tintoretto, 51; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 193.

St. Roch Giving Alms, Annibale Carracci, Dresden Gallery.

ROCH, ST., IN THE HOSPITAL, Tintoretto, S. Rocco, Venice; canvas, H. about 10 ft. × 25 ft. The Saint engaged in his ministrations in the hospital. A very noble picture, carefully composed and highly wrought, but a disgusting subject.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 323; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 191.

ROCH, ST., BEFORE THE POPE, Tintoretto, S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. A delightful picture in his best manner, but hastily painted.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 321.

ROCHEGROSSE, GEORGES, born at Versailles; contemporary. History painter, pupil of Jules Lefèbvre and of Boulanger. Medals: 3d class, 1882; 2d class, and prix du Salon, 1883. Works: Vitellius dragged through the Streets of Rome (1882); Andromache (1883); La Jacquerie (1885); Madness of Nebuchadnezzar (1886).—Kunst-Chronik, xx. 701; xxi. 294, 378; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 258; xx. 234; xxi. 314.

ROCKY MOUNTAINS, Albert Bierstadt, James McHenry. A vast plain, with cottonwood trees, oaks, and pines in the foreground, groups of wigwams with Indians and ponies in middle distance, and beyond, a river; in background, lofty snow-crowned mountains—the highest peak Mount Lander. Painted in 1863. Engraved by James D. Smillie.

RODAKOWSKI, HEINRICH, born at Lemberg, Galicia, in 1823. One of the best portrait painters of the day, pupil of Cogniet in Paris, where he settled; painted also several good history and genre pictures. Medals: Paris, 1st class, 1852; 3d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1861. Works: General Dem