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  • Stirling, iii. 1450; Jameson, Madonna, 49;

Curtis, 3.

Subject treated also by Giorgio Vasari, Lucca Gallery; Benozzo Gozzoli, Pisa Gallery; Piero di Cosimo, Uffizi, Florence; Girolamo Mazzuola, Parma Gallery; Dosso Dossi, Dresden Gallery; Carlo Maratti, Vienna Museum; Sassoferrato, Brera, Milan; Juan de Juanes, Granada Museum; Antonio Palomino, ib.; Agostino del Castillo, Cordova Cathedral; Valdes Leal (2), Convent of La Merced, Seville; Vincenzo Carducci, Fomento Museum, Madrid; G. B. Tiepolo, ib.; Tintoretto, Church of La Madonnetta, Genoa; G. B. Paggi, Capuchin Church, ib.; Rubens, Madrid Museum; Pichon (Salon, 1868).


CONCERT, Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 5 ft. 7 in. Eight musicians, half-length, standing before a desk, playing different instruments; an organist, seated upon a stool, accompanies them.—Filhol, iv. Pl. 248; Landon, Musée, xii. Pl. 70.

Concert, Michaelangelo da Caravaggio, Louvre, Paris.

By Domenichino, formerly at St. Cloud; canvas, H. 4 ft. 10 in. × 5 ft. 5 in. Four young men standing around a table, on which lie a guitar and music books; one, richly dressed, holds a violin and points with his bow to a bar of music, concerning which another is questioning him; a third is tuning a lute, and the fourth, a child, holds a violin. Painted at Rome for Cardinal Ludovisi; sold by his nephew, Prince Ludovisi, to M. de Noguet, who took it to France; passed, with Domenichino's St. Cecilia, through hands of Jabach, to Louis XIV. Burned with Château in 1870?—Musée français, i.

By Giorgione, Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 3 ft. 6 in. × 4 ft. Figures half-length. An Augustinian monk sits at a harpsichord, with his fingers on the keys; he has just struck a chord, and turns to his companions, a clerk, bald, dressed in white and black, with a lute, and a young man in Spanish costume, with long hair, and cap with white feathers. No simpler yet more effective picture than this is to be found among the masterpieces of the 16th century. Figures long thought to be portraits of Calvin, Luther, and Melancthon. Bought in 17th century by Leopold of Tuscany from Paolo del Sera. Copy in Palazzo Doria, Rome. Engraved by Rossi.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 144; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, i. Pl. 5.

Concert, Giorgione, Pitti, Florence.