BICCI Florentine school ; son of Lorenzo ; painted 1 and Vienna Academies, and a knight of the many works between 1420 and 1450, some ' Belgian Order of Leopold, the Bavarian of of which are extant, as for example the SS. St. Michael, and the Prussian of the Eed Cosmo and Damiau, Uffizi, rather sombre Eagle. Works : Ugolino and his Sons, in colour, but careful in drawing ; and Masaniello (1830), Execution of Anne Bo- some saints under the windows of a chapel in the Duomo, Florence, much repainted. leyn, Rubens presented to Charles V., Fla- gellation of Christ, Raphael and the Forna- Bicci is the author of a group in terra cotta, riua, Eucharis and Telemachus, Paix des representing the Coronation of the Virgin, i Dames in 1529, Charles I. decorating over the door of the hospital of S. Egidio, Rubens, Alva witnessing the Decapitation Florence, which Vasari wrongly attributes to Dello Delli. Milanesi, Archivio Storico Italiano, 183 ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ii. 232 ; ed. Mil., ii. 49, 63 ; C. & C., Italy, ii. 30. BICCI, NERI DI BICCI Dl'LORENZO DI, born in 1419, died in 1491. Florentine of Egmont and Horn (1852), Raczynski Gal- lery, Berlin ; Countess Egmont after her Husband's Seizure, and in the Prison after his Execution (I860); Council of War of the Duke of Parma (1862); Banquet of the Gueux, The Teutonic Order electing the school ; son of Bicci di Lorenzo, and Great Elector of Brandenburg their Grand grandson of Lorenzo. He reduced his art Master. Jordan, 51 ; Mflller, 51. to the level of a trade, and filled half BIENNOURRY, VICTOR FRANCOIS Tuscany with altarpieces and pictures. , ELOI, born at Bar-sur-Aube, Jan. 10, 1823. His masterpiece, San Giovanni Gualber- History painter ; pupil of Martin Drolling to enthroned between ten seated Saints, and of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he in the Regio Lotto of old S. Pancrazio, j won the grand prix de Rome in 1842. Florence, is ill drawn, flat, and inharmo- Medal, 1864. Works : Rich Man and Laza- nious in colour, but not without character. | rus (1849); Death of St. Joseph (1855), St. There are four Annunciations by this j Roch's, Paris; Man chasing Fortune, Man painter in the Florence Academy. Many i awaiting Fortune on his Couch (1857); of his scholars were so dissatisfied with j Baptism of Christ (1859); The Arts (1863); the traffic carried on by Neri in his studio, ! Christ on Mount of Olives (1864); Parthen- that they left him before their apprentice- ; ope (1865) ; Socrates exercising Patience ship was ended, to find other masters of (1868) ; JEsop composing a Fable (1869). higher tone. Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ii. 232 ; In fresco : The Works of Mercy, The Cardi- ed. Mil., ii. 49, 69, 261 ; C. & C., Italy, ii. nal Virtues, St. Eustache, Paris ; Scenes in 32. Lives of SS. Paul and Peter, St. Severin's, BICKER. See Miel. BIEFVE, EDOUARD DE, born in ib.; Institution des Quinze-Vingts (1880), St. Louis Lyceum, ib. Larousse, ii. 720. Brussels, Dec. 4, 1809, died there, Feb. ; BIERMANN, GOTTLIEB, born in Ber- 7, 1882. History painter ; pupil of Brus- j lin, Oct. 13, 1824. History and portrait sels Academy, then in 1828-30 of Paelinck ; painter ; pupil of the Berlin Academy and went in 1831 to Paris, where he remained , of Wilhelm Wach ; went in 1849 to Paris, ten years, sending his works to the exhibi- where he studied under ^Cogniet, and tions in Antwerp, Ghent, and Brussels. His thence to Italy. Studio in Berlin since masterpiece, Compromise of the Nobles at 1 1853 ; painted at first historical subjects, Brussels in 1566 (Brussels Museum and ; but now paints chiefly portraits, excelling National Gallery, Berlin), exhibited in Ghent , in children's groups and female figures, in 1841, and which won him the gold Member of and professor in the Berlin medal, was exhibited throughout Germany. Academy. Works : Death of Gustavus Member of the Berlin, Dresden, Munich, | Adolphus, Episode from Battle of Kunners- 150
