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 Arenberg Gallery, Brussels.—De Stuers, 115; Burger, Musées, ii. 215.

BORGOGNONE, AMBROGIO, born in Milan, about 1440-50, flourished from 1485 to 1523, some say until 1535; but probably died at Milan, in 1523. Lombardo-Milanese school; real name Ambrogio Stefani da Fossano; perhaps pupil of Vincenzo Foppa and of Bernardino Zenale. First manner timid and stiff, and never gained much freedom; painted in tempera and then in oil in the method of tempera; flat surface in flesh and drapery, and petty detail in landscape distances. His best work is in the Certosa, Pavia. Used much gilding in his early pictures, as in Madonna and Saints, Ambrosian Library, Milan; do., collection of Count Borromeo, Milan; and a triptych in the National Gallery, London, where are also his Marriage of St. Catherine and two family portrait pieces. The second style of Borgognone shows the influence of Leonardo da Vinci. Examples of it are the remains of frescos at S. Satiro, Milan (1494-95); a series of small panels at Lodi; Coronation of the Virgin, in choir, and scenes from the legend of S. Sisinius, in portico, of S. Simpliciano, Milan (1524); Christ after his Resurrection and Christ disputing with a Doctor, S. Ambrogio; a ceiling in the sacristy of S. M. della Passione; Madonna with Saints (1485), S. Eustorgio, Milan. In the Certosa, Pavia, are the frescos of the apses, and a Crucifixion (1490); St. Ambrose and Martyrs; St. Sirus in Majesty with Saints; St. Augustin, and many other works completed before 1494. Other works are: An altarpiece (1508), S. Spirito, Bergamo; Assumption (1522), Brera, Milan; Madonna in Adoration, Munich Gallery; do., Dresden Gallery.—Calvi, Dei Professori, etc., 245; Rio, Art Chrétien, iii. 184; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 41; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise; Morelli (Richter), 419; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 495.

BORGONA, JUAN DE, died in Toledo, about 1533. Spanish school; enjoyed the patronage of Archbishop Ximenes; painted in 1495-99 in the cloisters of the Cathedral of Toledo works now destroyed, and in 1508-11 frescos in the winter chapter room at Toledo, among which were a Nativity of the Virgin and a Last Judgment. In 1514 he painted the Conquest of Oran on the walls of the Muzarabic Chapel, and in 1519 adorned with frescos the Cathedral Library. He also painted portraits of all the Spanish Primates down to Cardinal de Fonseca.—Stirling, i. 93.

BORJESSON, AGNES, born in Sweden, May 1, 1827. Genre painter; pupil of Boklund; studied then in Paris, and from 1860 in Düsseldorf under W. Sohn; travelled afterwards in Italy. Since 1872 member of the Stockholm Academy. Works: Old Reminiscences, Stockholm Museum; Departure of the Bridal Pair.

BORRACHOS, LOS (The Topers), or Bacchus, Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 5 ft. 5 in. × 7 ft. 3 in. Bacchus, half nude, crowned with vine leaves, sits on a cask and smiles as he places a crown of leaves on head of a soldier kneeling before him; on left, a peasant seated, and another reclining on bank with a cup in hand; on right, five jovial peasants looking on; back-*ground, landscape. Painted about 1629 for Philip IV. Old copy in Naples Museum. Sketches: Lord Heytesbury, Wilts; Robert S. Holford, London. Several etchings and lithographs.—Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Art Journal (1852); Gaz. des B. Arts (1879), 421: Klass. der Malerei; Curtis, 17; Madrazo, 596.

BORRAS, Fray NICHOLAS, born at Cocentayna, in 1530, died at Gandia, in 1610. Spanish school; pupil of Vicente Joanes; became, in 1575, a monk in the Jeronymite convent at Gandia, where he gave most of