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 Mason (1772). Replica in small, Grosvenor House, London.—Pattison, Claude Lorrain, 67, 217, 233; Waagen, Treasures, iii. 140.

ROMAN EMPIRE, DECLINE OF, Claude Lorrain, Earl Radnor, Longford Castle; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 4 ft. 6 in. A sunset, with antique ruins and an aqueduct. Liber Veritatis, No. 82. Engraved by J. Fittler (1772). Replica in small (1661), Grosvenor House, London.—Pattison, Claude Lorrain, 67, 214, 219, 234; Waagen, Treasures, iii. 140.

ROMAN SENATOR'S DREAM, Murillo, Academia S. Fernando, Madrid; canvas, semicircular, H. 7 ft. 6 in. × 17 ft. 2 in. The Senator, seated in a chair asleep, his wife sleeping on the floor beside him; they behold the vision of the Virgin, who appears holding the Child and pointing through the open door to the site on which she directs the founding of the Church of S. M. Maggiore. Painted, with following picture, about 1656, for S. M. la Blanca, Seville; taken to Paris by Soult, who gave them, at the Restoration, to the King, who placed them in the Louvre; returned to Spain in 1814. Engraved by D. Martinez; etched by Galvan. Copy by Souchon in Lille Museum.—Curtis, 206; Huard, Vie des Peintres espagnoles (Paris, 1839-41).

ROMAN SENATOR RELATING HIS DREAM, Murillo, Academia S. Fernando, Madrid; canvas, semicircular, H. 7 ft. 6 in. × 17 ft. 2 in. The Senator and his wife, kneeling, relate their dream to Pope Liberius, who sits enthroned at left, attended by two cardinals; at right, in distance, a throng of people, and the Pope under a canopy, assist at the founding of the church. Same history as above. Engraved by D. Martinez; etched by Galvan. Copy by Souchon in Lille Museum.—Curtis, 206.

ROMANELLI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO, born at Viterbo in 1610 or 1612, died there, July, 1662. Roman school; pupil at Rome of Domenichino and of Pietro da Cortona; won the favour of the Barberini family and executed frescos in the Vatican to the satisfaction of Urban VIII. Painted also Presentation of the Virgin, for a mosaic in St. Peter's, a very successful work. Became Prince of Academy of St. Luke. Followed Cardinal Barberini to Paris in 1648 and painted frescos in the Mazarin Palace. Romanelli returned to Italy in 1651, but was recalled to Paris by Mazarin in 1659 and received with great favour by Louis XIV., who intrusted to him the decoration of several apartments in the Louvre. This work was finished in 1661, when ill-health compelled his return to Italy. He had just built a house near Viterbo, where he intended to retire and enjoy his wealth and honours, when he died. He was a weak, though pleasing, painter. His son Urbano, also a painter, died young in 1682. Most of Romanelli's easel pictures are in churches in Rome, and in Viterbo; among those in public galleries are: Venus and Æneas, Venus and Adonis (2), Gathering of Manna, Louvre, Paris; Allegory on Riches, Darmstadt Museum; Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Herodias with the Head of St. John, Schleissheim Gallery; Victory Dance of Jewesses before David, The Kings of India doing Homage to Alexander, Vienna Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 768.

ROMANINO, GIROLAMO, born at Brescia about 1485, died there in 1566. Venetian school; supposed pupil of Stefano Rizzi, or of Floriano Ferramola at Brescia, but probably studied also under one of the Friulian masters. Free of guild at Brescia before 1510, when he was a skilled artist in the manner of the Palmas and of Pellegrino. At this time he painted the Pietà, now in the collection of Sir Ivor Guest, England, which was quickly followed by the Madonna with Saints, and the Judith, in the Berlin