FONT ANA cia ; Birth of Virgin, S. Trinita ; Madonna, j tie of Gaillard (1804), Lisieux Museum ; Ascension, Pieve di Cento. Malvasia, i. 173; Seine near Euins of the Castle of Tancar- Lanzi, iii. 42 ; Ch. Blanc, cole bolouaise ; ville, Top of the Sulphur Mine in Guada- (Jualaiuli, Guida, 138, 140, 100. j loupe (18G5) ; Village of Unterseen, Church FONTANA, PHOSPERO, born in Bo- i of St. Bernard de Comminges (186G) ; Vil- logna in 1512, died in Home in 1597. Bo- lage of Vezillon, High Tide between Havre lognese school, pupil of Innoceuzo da Im- and Houfleur (18G8), Laval Museum ; Seine ola ; went to France to aid Primaticcio at between Rouen and Havre (1869) ; View in Foutainebleau, but was taken ill and had to ; Valley of the Touque (1870) ; Road from return. Painted chiefly in Bologna and in Meyringen to Goutan (1872) ; Farm near Rome. He was devoted to pleasure, and Rouen (1874) ; Seine at LesAndelys (1875) ; his many (chiefly historical) works are cxe- j Ruins of Castle in Valley of Lauterbrunnen cuted with little care. His best pictures are ' (187G); Farm on Heightsof Avranches(1877); his portraits. Among his works are : Dec- orations in Vigna di Papa Giulio near Rome ; Altarpiece, S. Salvatore, Bologna Villiers (1878) ; Farm near Pontorson, Pic du Midi near Pau (1879) ; Coast of Honfleur, Farm in Normandy (1880) ; Farm in Pi- Entombment, Bologna Gallery ; Charity of cardy, View near Villiers-sur-Mer (1882) ; S. Alexis, S. Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna ; Squall on the Coast of Normandy, Cliffs at Holy Family, Dresden Gallery ; Annuncia- Puy (1883) ; Cliffs near Chateau of Dieppe tion, Brera, Milan ; Visitation, Estense Gal- (1884); Last Judgment, Entrance to Dieppe ler', Modena. Malvasia, i. 173 ; Lanzi, iii. ' (1885). 42^; Ch. Blanc, Kcole bolonaise ; Vasari, ed. i FON VILLE, HORACE, born at Lyons in Le Mon., ix. 95 ; xii. Ill ; xiii. 5, 183. 1832. Landscape painter, pupil of his FONTANA, ROBERTO, born in Milan in father and of Appiau. Works : Chateau de 1S44. Genre painter, pupil of Milan Acad- la Pape near Lyons (1833) ; View of Lyons emy. Medal, Milan, 1871!. Works: Scene (1840); Landscape in the Haut-Bugey (1864); in Robert le Diable ; Wooing ; JEsop relat- At Rossillon, Ain (1870) ; Road in Moun- ing his Fables (1870). tains of Haut-Bugey (1874), Luxembourg FONTENAY, ALEXIS DALIGH DE, Museum ; Ain River at Neuville (1876); born in Paris, April 21), 1813. Landscape Souvenir of Virieux-le-Grand (1877) ; Land- painter, pupil of Watclet and Hersent. Has scape in Bugey (1879). won a good reputation as a faithful deline- 1 FOPPA, VINCENZO, the elder, born at ator of nature. Medals : 3d class, 1841 ; Foppa, province of Pavia, died in Brescia in 2d class, 1844, 1801, and 1863. Works :' 1492. Lombard school ; a disciple probably View on the Grimsel Road (1841) ; View on | of Squarcione, but nothing known of him Road to the Maladetta, Pyrenees (1843), before his engagement in Milan in 1456, Marseilles Museum ; Environs of Luz (1844); when he called himself a citizen of Brescia. Great Sulphur Mine (1845) ; Fort Royal In 1461 he was in Pavia, where he painted (1847) ; Bernese Oberland (1848) ; Road in 1462 frescos in the Carmine, and in 1465 from Bastia to Ajaccio (1852) ; Isle of Elba a chapel in the Certosa. At a later date he (1852), Montauban Museum ; Farm and worked in Savona and in Brescia. His Castle (1855), Nantes Museum ; Valley of earlier pictures show the prominent charac- Lauterbrunnen (1857), Moutpellier Museum; teristics of the Paduan school, but in the Gulf of Ajaccio (1859), Strassburg Museum ; course of years he shook off Mantegnesque Wetterhorn and Grindelwald (1861) ; Castle peculiarities and gained the mastery which of Unspunneu (1803), Saint-Quentin Muse- comes from long practice. Among his best um ; View in Bernese Oberland, Gallery at ' extant works are the St. Sebastian, Brera, Monaye (1863) ; View near Unterseen, Cas- , Milan, and the altarpiece in sis panels in S.
