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Barberini picture), Venus, Borghese, Rome; Galatea (copy of Raphael's fresco), Accad. S. Luca, Rome; Madonna, Uffizi, Florence; Dance of Muses, Pal. Pitti, ib.; Madonna della Gatta, Naples Mus.; Nativity, Triumph of Titus and Vespasian, Venus and Vulcan, Madonna and St. John, Repose of Holy Family, and portrait of himself, Louvre; Madonna and Child, do. with St. John, and several others, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Infancy of Jupiter, Vision of the Magdalen (fresco), Capture of Carthage, Continence of Scipio, Abduction of the Sabine Women, Nat. Gal., London; Juno and Hercules, Bridgewater House, London; Madonna with Saints, S. Francesco, Brescia; Madonna with Saints, S. M. dell' Anima, Rome.—Vasari, ed. Le. Mon., x. 87; ed. Mil., v. 523, 563; Burckhardt, 8, 128, 179, 180; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Dohme, 2iii.


GIUNTA PISANO, of Pisa, first half of 13th century. First mentioned as master in 1210, and still living at Pisa in 1255. Frescos by him or by artists of his school are in S. Pietro in Grado, near Pisa. He is said to have painted in 1236, in the upper church of S. Francesco Assisi, a Crucifixion with Father Elias. Other pictures in the Academy, and in the Campo Santo at Pisa, are ascribed both to him and to Cimabue.—C. & C., Italy, i. 166; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 86; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., i. 221, 307; Morrona, Pisa Illustrata (Leghorn, 1812), ii. 116.


GIUSEPPINO. See Cesare, Giuseppe.


GIUSTO D'ANDREA DI GIUSTO, Florentine school, flourished second half of 15th century. Son of Andrea di Giusto, Masaccio's assistant; worked under Neri di Bicci in 1458-59, with Fra Filippo in 1460, and assisted Benozzo Gozzoli in the Campo Santo, Pisa. His style is a mixture of that of Fra Filippo and of Gozzoli, but inferior to both. By him are, perhaps, a Madonna and Saints in S. Gimignano Gallery (attributed to Gozzoli); do. in S. Girolamo, Volterra; do. in Gallery Comunale, Prato; do. in Florence Academy.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 516; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ii. 258; iv. 191.


GIUSTO DI GIOVANNI. See Menaboi.


GLADIATORS (Combat de Gladiateurs), Jean Léon Gérôme, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York; canvas. Scene in the Coliseum, Rome. The victor in a gladiatorial combat stands over his prostrate foe and turns to the spectators for the signal of life or death, given by turning the thumbs, whence the picture is sometimes called Pollice Verso.


GLAESER, GEORG, born at Altorf, near Nuremberg, in 1719, died at Baireuth in 1748. Portrait and history painter; became court-painter to Margrave Frederic of Baireuth, who sent him to Vienna and then to Italy, where he remained seven years. Works: Death of Lucretia, Death of Cleopatra, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Alexander's Entry into India, Baptism of Christ, Portrait of a Rabbi (1735), Landauer Brüderhaus, ib.


GLAIZE, AUGUSTE (BARTHÉLEMY), born at Montpellier, Dec. 15, 1813. Genre painter, pupil of the brothers Devéria; belongs to the realistic school; is more successful with mythological than with Christian subjects. Medals: 3d class, 1842; 2d class, 1844, 1848, and 1855; 1st class, 1845; L. of Honour, 1855. Works: Flight into Egypt, Luca Signorelli lamenting his Son killed in a Duel (1836); After the War (1838); Faust and Marguerite, Angels coming for the Body of the Magdalen (1839); Vision of Saint Theresa (1841); Flight into Egypt, Interior with Holy Family, Psyche (1842); Women Bathing, Humility of Saint Elizabeth (1843); Susannah at the Bath, St. Elizabeth begging her Bread (1844); Acis and Galatea (1845); Blood of Venus (1846), Montpellier Museum; Dante writing under the Inspiration of Beatrice and Virgil (1847); Death of the Precursor (1848), Toulouse Museum; Women of Gaul (1852), Autun Museum; The Pillory (1855); What One sees at the Age of Twenty (1855), Montpellier Museum; Cupids at Auction (1857), Béziers Museum; Before the Shop of a Money-