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PASSAVANT envy ; Courier Asleep in the Deserts of Persia, Falcon Chase on Lake Urumiah, The Nile, Sunset, Museo Civico, Turin ; Persian Street Scene at Night ; Oriental Garden ; Begging Dervish ; Order of Ar- rest ; Harem in the Country ; Venice, Mar- ket Scene Constantinople, T. A. Have- ineyer, New York ; Entrance to Mosque, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib. ; Mosque of St. So- phia, C. P. Huntington, ib. ; Sultan's Es- cort, J. H. Stebbins, ib. ; Arabs crossing the Desert, J. C. Runkle, ib. ; Persians at a Ford, John Hoey, ib. ; Palanquin and its Guard, Mrs. F. A. Scott, Philadelphia ; Street in Constantinople, Fairrnan Rogers, ib. ; Mussulman Pilgrims (18G7), John G. Johnson, ib. ; Persian Cavalcade, C. H. Wolff, ib.; Damascus (1880), W. T. Wal- tors, Baltimore ; Sultan visiting a Mosque -15th Century (1885). L'Art (1878), iii. 244 ; Miillcr, 407. PASSAVANT, JOHANN DAVID, born at Frankfort, Sept. 18, 1787, died there, Aug. 12, 1801. History painter, pupil in Paris of David and Gros, after having fought as a volunteer in the war of independence, 1813-15. In Rome he joined in 1847 the romantic school of Cornelius, Overbeck, Veit, and Schnorr, and after his return be- came inspector of the Stiidel Institute at Frankfort. More noted as a writer on art. W'orks : St. Hubert and the Stag with the Cross (1822), Stitdel Gallery, Frankfort ; Por- trait of Emperor Henry II., Rdmer, ib. Autobiog. (Frankfort, 1863); Nagler, x. 563 ; Riegel, Gesch. des Wiederauflebens der d. K. (Leipsic, 1882), 329, 339. PASSERI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, born in Rome about 1610, died there, April 2, 1679. Roman school ; worked at Grotta Ferrata with Domenichino, and followed his style. Painted a Crucifixion in S. Giovanni della Malva, Rome, and a St. Peter baptiz- ing Two Saints in Prison, which was copied in mosaic for St. Peter's. His Portrait of Domenichino is in the Academy of St. Luke, of which he was prince in 1641. Passeri is best known by his "Vite de' Pittori, Scul- tori, ed Architetti, 1641-73," published in 1772. He became a priest in 1675. His nephew, Giuseppe Passeri (born 1654, died 1714), was a pupil of Maratti and a good colourist. Ch. Blanc, Ecole ombrienne. PASSEROTTI, BARTOLOMMEO, born in Bologna about 1520, died there, June 3, 1592. Bolognese school ; pupil of Jacopo da Vig- nola, whom he followed to Rome; afterward assistant to Taddeo Zucche- ro. Established an academy of painting in Bologna, where he was considered the equal of the Carracci. Excelled as a por- trait painter, being esteemed by some as second to Titian only. Among his sitters were Pius V., Sixtus V., Gregory XIII., and Cardinals Alessandrino and Guastavillano. Wrote a work on anatomy, and was among the first to introduce nude figures in relig- ious subjects. Was also a good engraver and designer with the pen. Works in Bo- logna : Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, Portrait of Pope Sixtus V., Pinaco- teca ; Altai-piece, Oratory of the Notaries ; Madonna with Saints, S. Petronio ; Adora- tion of the Magi, Sacristy, Duomo ; An- nunciation, S. Martino Maggiore ; Madonna with Saints, S. Giacomo Maggiore ; St. Catharine, S. M. Maddalena ; St. Ursula and Virgins, Mendicanti ; Portrait of the Ar- tist and his Family, Dresden Gallery. Bar- tolommeo left four sons, Tiburzio, Aurelio, Passerotto, and Ventura, all mediocre paint- ers. Mai vasia, i. 187; Siret, 681; Burck- hardt, 761 ; Lanzi, iii. 45 ; Ch. Blanc, iScole bolonaise ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., viii. 16. 400