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 than 1358. Rumohr doubts, and Kugler denies, his existence. Vasari says he was the pupil of Andrea Tafi and represents him as a practical joker, who lived a merry life and died a beggar; but that he was an excellent painter and able to outdo all others when he could be persuaded to work. He assigns many works to him, but it is doubtful if any examples remain.—C. & C., Italy, i. 387; Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 499; Rumohr, Italienische Forschungen, 14.

BUGIARDINI, GIULIANO, born in Florence, Jan. 29, 1475, died there, Feb. 16, 1554. Florentine school; studied the antique in the garden of the Medici, where he became the friend of Michelangelo and followed him into the workshop of Ghirlandajo. Afterward was scholar of and assistant to Mariotto Albertinelli with Francia Bigio in Florence, and later was employed by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. His usual theme is the Madonna, sometimes with the youthful St. John, and sometimes with Saints. Among his works, which are usually signed Jul. Flor. (Florentinus), are: Birth of Christ, sacristy of Sta. Croce; Weeping Madonna, Uffizi, Florence; Martyrdom of St. Catherine, S. M. Novella, ib.; Madonna and Baptist, Leipsic Museum; Nativity, Berlin Museum; Marriage of St. Catherine, Bologna Gallery.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 494; Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 201; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Burckhardt, 638; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 176.

BÜHLMEYER, KONRAD, born in Vienna, Aug. 18, 1835, died there in Nov., 1883. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; studied then several years in Düsseldorf, and later in Zürich under Koller. Works: Wood-Path; View near Lundenburg; View in Salzburg; View in the Ramsau; On Gmunden Lake; Driving the Cattle to the Alp, Vienna Museum; Animals Resting; Driving Sheep Home; The Ploughman; Cows on the Water; Pasture (1883).—Müller, 85.

BULAND, JEAN EUGÈNE, born in Paris; contemporary. Genre painter; pupil of Cabanel and Yvon. Medal, 3d class, 1885. Works: Offering to God, Lycenion and Daphnis (1880); Annunciation, After Two Years' Absence (1881); Jesus with Martha and Mary, Singing Lesson (1882); Penniless (1883); Marriage innocent, Visit on the Day after Marriage (1884); Restitution to the Virgin the Day after Marriage, Decorative Panel (1885).

BULARCHUS, painter, early period. Pliny says (vii. 39 [126], xxxv. 34 [55]) that King Candaules of Lydia paid its weight in gold for a large picture by him representing his battle with the Magnetes.

BULGARINI, BARTOLOMMEO, died in Siena in 1378. Sienese school; called also Bolgharini, and by Vasari Bologhini. Pupil of Pietro Lorenzetti; member of the supreme council in 1362, and finally lay-brother in the hospital at Siena. Vasari says he painted many pictures in Siena, and in other parts of Italy, but none exist. Vasari's portrait of Pietro was copied from Bulgarini's.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 172; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 60; Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 477.

BUNCE, WILLIAM GEDNEY, born in Hartford, Conn., in 1842. Landscape painter; pupil of William Hart in New York, Andreas Achenbach in Düsseldorf, and Clays in Brussels. Lived twelve years in Europe. Studio in New York. Works: Venice—Night (1876); Venice—Morning, La Luna Veneziana (1878); Approach to Venice, Paris Exposition; Twilight in Holland, T. B. Clarke, New York; Watch Hill—Rhode Island (1880); Venetian Boats (1881); Satucket Hillside—New England, Among the Sails—Venice, Bit of Harbour—Venice (1882); Sun, Sails and Sea—Venice, Day in May—Venice (1883); On the Lagoon, San Giorgio (1884); Venetian Day, Venetian Night (1885).

BUNEL, JACQUES, born at Blois, 1558, died in 1614. French school, pupil in Rome of Federigo Zucchero; was court painter to Henry IV.; with Dubreuil decorated the small Louvre Gallery, which was burnt in