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 the character of his subjects, being always soft and harmonious. Some of his female figures are better than any of his male subjects. He was the last of the Florentine school, as well in style and taste as in point of time. Among his best works are: Martyrdom of St. Andrew, Sleeping St. John, Madonna, Christ in the Garden, St. Peter Weeping, Pal. Pitti, Florence; Magdalen, and Madonna appearing to a Monk, Uffizi, Florence; St. Cecilia, Salome, Dresden Gallery; St. John writing his Gospel, Berlin Museum; St. Catherine, St. Cecilia, Magdalen, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Sincerity, Madonna, Vienna Museum; Madonna, Magdalen, Munich Pinakothek.—Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Seguier, 58; Wornum, Epochs, 356.

DOLPH, J. H., born at Fort Ann, N. Y., April 18, 1835. Genre and animal painter, pupil in 1870 of Louis van Kuyck in Antwerp; studied in Paris in 1880-82. He spent several years abroad studying in Rome and painting on the continent. Elected an A.N.A. in 1877. Studio in New York. Works: Knickerbocker Farm-Yard (1869); Parson's Visit, Beggars (1874); Landscape and Cattle, Antiquarian (1876, Philadelphia); Waiting for the Hunters (1879); Grace before Meat (1880); The Antechamber (1882); Choice of a Sword, Minstrel Songs, The Reprimand (1883); Cat and Kittens, Rat Retired from the World—La Fontaine's Fable (1884); A Princess, I can't Play with You (1885).

DOMENICHINO (Domenico Zampieri), born in Bologna, Oct. 21, 1581, died in Naples, April 15, 1641. Bolognese school; son of a shoemaker; pupil of Denis Calvaert, afterward of the Carracci at the same time with Guido and Albani, who became his intimate friend. After studying works of Correggio and of Parmigiano at Parma and Modena, went to Rome and aided Annibale Carracci in the Farnese frescos. He soon became distinguished as an accurate designer and a true colourist, and was employed in painting frescos by Cardinals Borghese, Farnese, and Aldobrandini. His increasing reputation excited the jealousy of Guido, Lanfranco, and other painters, who treated him with so much injustice that he returned to Bologna, April 18, 1612. A month later he went to Rome, but he did not settle there until 1620, when Gregory XV. appointed him painter and architect of the apostolic chamber. In 1630, after the death of the Pope, he went to Naples to decorate the chapel of S. Januarius in the Cathedral with frescos of events in the Saint's life, but before they were finished he was so persecuted by the notorious cabal—the painters Corenzio, Spagnoletto, and Caracciolo—that he worried himself to death, or, as is suspected, died of poison. Domenichino was rated in the last century as only second to Raphael, but, although a forcible and learned painter, he was commonplace in invention and wanting in ideality. His masterpiece is the Communion of St. Jerome, in the Vatican, where it has been ranked as a rival to Raphael's Transfiguration. Other examples: Martyrdom of St. Agnes, do. of St. Peter Martyr, Madonna del Rosario, Bologna Gallery; Diana and Actæon, Magdalen, Venus, Cupid and Satyrs, Pal. Pitti, Florence; Portrait of Cardinal Aguccia, Uffizi; Samson, Lucca Gallery; Madonna with Saints, Brera, Milan; Guardian Angel, St. John the Evangelist, Naples Museum; Adam and Eve, Pal. Barberini, Rome; Diana and Nymphs, Cumæan Sibyl, Pal. Borghese, Rome; Cumæan Sibyl, Capitol Gallery, Rome; Adam and Eve in Paradise, Triumph