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188 TREVISANI— UBERTINI. master, and he painted almost every subject — ^figure, portrait, animal, land- scape, architecture, flowers, &c. He is sometimes called Roman Trevisani to distinguish him from Angelo Trevi- sani of Venice {living 1753), who was also a good portrait-painter. Works, Borne, San Silvestro in Gapite, the Crucifixion : San Fran- cesco delle Sagre Sdmate, the Titular : church of the CoUegio Romano, Death of St. Joseph : San Giovanni Laterano, the Prophet Baruch. Urbino, cathe- dral, cupola. ForU, Gasa Albicini, Crucifixion, and other works. Venice, San Bocco, St. Anthony of Padua. Louvre, Madonna and Child ; another with the Child sleeping. Dresden Gallery, Murder of the Innocents; a Bepose; and several others. Many of his works have been engraved. {LanzL) TBOTTI, Cav. Gio. Battista, called II Malosso, b. at Cremona, 1555, living 1607. Lombard School. The scholar of Bernardino Campi, whose niece he married ; he became an imi- tator of Correggio and Soiaro. His nickname of Malosso is said to have been given him at Parma by Agostino Carracci, who, with reference to his rivalry, found TrotU a hard bone to pick, Mai osso. He executed some celebrated frescoes in the Palazzo del Giardino at Parma, and others from the designs of Giulio Campi in the cupola of Sant' Abondio. A favourite subject with him was the Beheading of John the Baptist, which he has repeated in San Domenico at Cremona, in San Francesco, and Sant' Agostino at Pia- cenza. In the cathedral at Cremona, is the Crucifixion: in San Pietro, Santa Maria Egiziaca; and in Sant' Abondio, a Pieta. {Zaist, LanzL) TUBCHI, Alessandbo, called Ales- SANDBO Vebonese, and L'Orbetto, from his occupation of leading his blind father, b, at Verona, in 1582, d, at Bome, in 1648. Venetian School. He was first the colour-grinder, and then the scholar of Felice Biccio, called Brusasorci ; he studied afterwards under Carlo Saracino at Venice; he spent also some time at Bome, and studied the works generally of the great Italian masters on the eclectic principle of the Carracci; he was, however, a de- cided mannerist. His chief excellence was his colouring. He painted fre- quently small pictures on marble, stone, and slate. Works. Bome, church of the Con- ception, St. Felix: San Bomualdo, Flight into Egypt: Colonna Palace, Sisera. Verona, San Stefano, the Forty Martyrs: San Niccolo, the Na- tivity: at the Misericordia, a Pieta: Sant' Anastasia, the Ascension : Santa Maria in Organo, the Virgin in glory, with Saints: Casa Girardini, Adora- tion of the Kings ; and other works. Louvre, the Deluge ; Samson and Da- hlah; the Death of Cleopatra; and others. Dresden Gallery, David with the Head of Goliath ; the Judgment of Paris; and several small and careful religious pictures on slate. London, Bridgewater Gallery, Joseph and Po- tiphar's Wife. {Dal Pozzo^ Passeri, Lanzi.) UBEBTINI, Francesco, called Bac- CHiAccA, b, about 1490, d. at Florence, 1557. Tuscan SchooL The scholar of Pietro Perugino, and the fHend of Andrea del Sarto. He painted in oil and in fresco, and was distinguished for his small figure pieces, which he painted sometimes upon furniture. Several of his works, which Vasari praises for their diligent execution, are still ex- tant ; as the two pictures executed for Giovan Maria Benintendi; one, the Baptism of Christ, now apparently in the Berlin Gallery, and the other in the Dresden Gallery, representing a