BELMONTE soub, Inundation of the Nile (1857); Plain part of which was advanced. Allston hoped of Ghiseh, Dyke on the Nile (1857); Even- to finish it in nix months, but, on account ing in the Desert of Tyh, The Nile, Pilgrims of criticisms of Gilbert Stuart, determined to to Mecca (1861), Luxembourg Museum ; make a radical change in the perspective. View of a Harbour (1861), StrossburgMu.se- It remained in his studio until his death, urn ; Sackies of Lower Egypt, Street in when it was left unfinished, his last week's Cniro (18G3); Fellahs drawing a Dahabieh work having been spent on it Memorial (1804); Dead Sea (I860;; Sirens (1867); Hist Boston, iv. 395 ; Knickerbocker Mag., Evening, Mahinoudieh Canal (1868); Relig- xxiv. 205 ; Tuckermon. ious Festival in Cairo, Dorad Fishing (1869); BELTRAFFIO (Boltraffio), GIOVANNI Fairies' Pond, The River Sauldre, Ruins of ANTONIO, born in Milan in 1467, died Baalbec (1874); A Pond, A Meadow, The there, June 16, 1516. Lombard school Sauldre (1875); Montboulan Ford, Daha- Taught in the old Milanese school of Foppa bieh Aground (1877). Bellier ; Larousse ; and Civerchio, he came under the influence Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 430. of the new founded by Leonardo da Vinci. BELMONTE Y VACOS, MARIANO, His colouring is, however, brighter, and his born at Cordova, Spain, died at Valencia contrasts of light and shade more vigorous. in 1864. Landscape painter ; was professor His best works are: Mailonna of the Casio in the art-schools of Cadiz and Valencia. Family (1500), Louvre ; Madonna, Cosa Medals, 1858, 1860, 1862. Works : C.isa Poldi, Milan ; Madonna, Bergamo Gallery ; de Campo at Madrid (1859), Grotto of Pa- male portrait, Ambrosian Library, Milan, lornas near Valencia (1865), Museo Nacional, and two portraits at the Isola Bella. The Madrid. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., iii. 437. portrait of the Marechal de Chaumont, BELOVED, THE, Dante Gabriel liossetti, Charles d'Amboise, in the Louvre, by Bel- George Rae, Birkenhead, England ; canvas, traffic, or Andrea Solario, has l>een attrib- Illustration of Song of Solomon. Five life uted to Leonardo da Vinci. Vasari, ed. size, three-quarters length female figures and Mil., iv. 51; Burckhardt, 703 ; Miiller, Es- a negro girl, the last in front of the group, sai, 122 ; Rio, iii. 205 ; Ch. Blanc, colo bearing roses in a golden vase. The marriage milanai.se; Liibke, Gesch. ital. MaL, ii. 446. procession has halted, and the bride, clad in BELTRANO, AGOSTDs'O, born at Na- apple-green silk, has removed the veil from pies, died there in 1665. Neapolitan school ; her face and throat, while her companions history painter ; pupil of Massimo Stanzi- pi-ess closely around her, forming a mass of oni, married his fellow-scholar Amelia di glowing colour. Atlieureum, Oct., 1875, Rosa, whom he stabbed in a fit of jealousy in 444 ; Jan., 1883, 93. 1649, fled to France and returned to Naples BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST, Washington in 1659. Was a good fresco painter, and Allston, Museum Fine Arts, Boston, Mnss.; a colourist in oil of considerable merit, canvas, H. 12 ft. 6 in. x 18 ft. 6 in. Daniel Works : Legend of St. Biagio, S. Maria interpreting the handwriting on the wall to della Sanita, Naples ; Cupola, S. Maria della Belshazzar at his feast (Dan., v.). In fore- Donna Regina, ib.; Ceiling in a Chapel, ground, the king, queen, Daniel, and four S. Maria la Nuovo, ib. ; three panels in oil, magicians ; behind them a group of Jewish , ib. Meyer, Kiinst, Lex., iii. 447. men and women, and beyond the banquet BEMBO. BONIFAZIO or FAZIO, of Cre tables with many guests ; in distance on an [ mona, died about 1500. Lombard school elevated platform a golden statue of a god, In 1455 was in the service of Duke Fran- with worshippers. Begun in England and cesco Sforza, and in 1461-7 was among brought, in 1818, to Boston, where it was j decorators of the palaces at Milan and Pa via, purchased by several citizens for $10,000, | In 1467-8, painted in fresco portraits of UB
