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 Ariadne, Luca Giordano, Dresden Gallery.

of Pedro de las Cuevas; painted when fourteen years old pictures for high altar of the Carmelites in Toledo, and at twenty-five reckoned one of the best painters in Madrid. Employed with Camilo, Alonzo Cano, and other distinguished artists to paint the portraits of the kings of Spain, when the ancient hall of the kings in the Royal Palace was renovated. Executed many pictures for churches and convents. Works: Tribute Money, Charles V. and Philip II., Madrid Museum. Died in want at the general hospital of Madrid.—Stirling, ii. 715; Viardot, 284; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 248; Madrazo, 350.

ARIENTI, CARLO, born in Milan in 1800, died in Bologna, April 3, 1873. History painter, pupil of the schools of the Brera, Milan; was professor at the Milan Academy when called to Turin by King Charles Albert, who ordered him to paint for the staircase of the palace a victory of the Italians over the Austrians. This exiled him from Milan, but he was made president of the Academia Albertini, Turin, and afterward director of the Bologna Academy. Works: Beatrice di Tenda, Jeremiah, Orestes, Phædra and Hippolytus, Francesca da Rimini, Origin of the Lombard League (Quirinal, Rome); Portrait of Bellini (Naples Conservatory of Music); Barbarossa (Royal Palace, Turin).—Kunst-Chronik, viii. 466.

ARIOSTO, portrait, Titian, Cobham Hall, England; canvas, H. 2 ft. 9 in. × 2 ft. 1 in.; signed. The poet is walking, the upper part of his body seen in profile behind a parapet, the face turned toward the spectator. History unknown; not certainly a portrait of Ariosto, but may be the picture of the Lopez collection, sold in London in time of Charles I.; and this in turn may have been the portrait which Baruffaldi says was sent to Padua in 1554 by Ariosto's son Virginio. The copy formerly in the Palazzo Manfrini passed to Barker collection in 1857, and was afterward sold. Other copies in the Vicenza Gallery, in the Tosi collection at Brescia, and in the Butler-Johnstone collection, London.—C. & C., Titian, i. 197; Baruffaldi's Ariosto, 251.