1856); Brock-Arnold, Biog. Great Artists; Redgrave; Cunningham; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Waagen, Art Treasures; Blackwood's Mag., Nov., 1867; Eng. Painters of Georgian Era (London, 1876); London Acad., Aug. 4, 1883, 86; July 21, 1883, 51; Portfolio (1872), 169, 178.
GAISSER, JAKOB EMANUEL, born in
Augsburg, Nov. 21, 1825. Genre painter,
pupil in Augsburg of Johann Geyer, then of
Munich Academy under Clemens
Zimmermann, but studied chiefly
after the old masters in the Pinakothek.
Having held a position as
Intructor at Augsburg in 1853-63,
he settled in Munich. Received a
medal in London. Works: Family
Concert (1867); Münchhausen
among the Ladies; The Tough
Goose; The Last Lesson; Soldiers
Quartered; Secret Love Message;
Game of Chess; Hans Fugger in
Family Circle; Cœur à Tout; Contented
People; Lupus in Fabula;
Brother Cellarer; The Improvisatore;
Letter of Introduction.—Allgem.
Kunst-Chronik, ix. 698.
GALASSI, GALASSO, born in
first half of 15th century, dead in
1473. Lombard school; son of a
tailor and master-painter of Ferrara.
Name appears in 1450-53 in
account books of house of Este,
where he is called Maestro Galasso
de Matheo Calegaro, in connection
with the decoration of the palace of
Belriguardo. In 1455 he composed
the Assumption and finished a portrait of
Cardinal Bessarion in Santa Maria in Monte,
Bologna. Vasari says he went to Venice and
acquired there the use of oils, but it is doubtful
if he ever used them. Much more has
been made of him than he deserves. His
pictures show bad drawing, affected or spasmodic
action, and skinny flesh. Examples:
Trinity, Ferrara Museum; Entombment, and
Virgin with Saint and Donor, Costabili Collection,
Ferrara.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 514;
Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 213; Cittadella, Notizie
di Ferrara, 26, 558 et seq.; Ch. Blanc,
École ferraraise.
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Triumph of Galatea, Raphael, Palazzo Farnesina, Rome.
GALATEA, TRIUMPH OF, Raphael, Palazzo Farnesina, Rome; fresco, figures life-size. Galatea, half nude, standing in a shell, attended by tritons and sea-nymphs, is drawn over the waves by two dolphins, which she guides by reins, aided by a Cupid; above, three Cupids are discharging arrows, and a fourth, half hidden in clouds, is preparing his darts. Painted in 1514 for Agostino Chigi, owner of the Palazzo Chigi (now Farnesina). Subject probably from Philostratus (Imagines, ii. xviii.) or Politian (Giostra, i. 118). Engraved by Marc Antonio; Marco Dente; H. Goltzius; Richomme; B. Desnoyers. Copy by Giulio Romano, Accademia di S. Luca, Rome.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 340; Passavant, ii. 143; Müntz, 489; Förster, Farnesina Studien; Gruyer, Ra-
