DOLPII the character of his subjects, being always soft and harmonious. Some of his female figures are better than any of his male sub- jects. He was the last of the Florentine school, as well in style and taste as in point of time. Among his best works are : Mar- tyrdom 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 Gal- lery; St. John writing his Gospel, Berlin Museum ; St. Catherine, St. Cecilia, Magda- . __ len, Her- enna Mu- seum; Madonna, Magdalen, Munich Pinakot- hek. Ch. Blanc, cole 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 Ant- werp ; 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, Philadel- phia) ; Waiting for the Hunters (1879) ; Grace before Meat (1880) ; The Antecham- ber (1882) ; Choice of a Sword, Minstrel Songs, The Reprimand (1883) ; Cat and Kit- tens, Rat Retired from the World La Fon- taine's Fable (1884) ; A Princess, I can't Play with You (1885). DOMENICHINO (Domenico Zampieri), born in Bologna, Oct. 21, 1581, died in Na- ples, 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 in- timate friend. After studying works of Cor- reggio and of Parmigiano at Parma and Modena, went to Rome and aided Annibale Carracci in the Farnese frescos. He soon became d i s t i n - guished as an ac- curate designer and a true colour- ist, and was em- ployed in paint- ing frescos by Cardinals Bor- ghese, Farnese, and Aldobrandini. His increasing re- putation excited the jealousy of Guido, Lan- franco, 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 cham- ber. 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 wor- ried himself to death, or, as is suspected, ' died of poison. Domenichino was rated in j the last century as only second to Raphael, | but, although a forcible and learned painter, he was commonplace in invention and want- ing 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 Gal- lery ; Diana and Actseon, Magdalen, Venus, Cupid and Satyrs, Pal. Pitti, Florence ; Portrait of Cardinal Aguccia, Uffizi ; Sam- son, Lucca Gallery ; Madonna with Saints, Brera, Milan ; Guardian Angel, St. John the Evangelist, Naples Museum ; Adam and Eve, Pal. Barberini, Rome ; Diana and Nymphs, Cumsean Sibyl, Pal. Borghese, Rome ; Cumsean Sibyl, Capitol Gallery, Rome ; Adam and Eve in Paradise, Triumph 416
