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The Critical Moment, Crown-Jewels, Visit to Grandmamma (1883).—Müller, 52.

BISSOLO, PIETRO FRANCESCO, born in Treviso. Venetian school; painted from about 1490 to 1530; pupil of the Bellini; fellow-labourer of Catena and Marco Marziale in the Sala del Gran Consiglio in 1492. He ranked among the better followers of Giovanni Bellini, and probably helped him in many of his pictures. His earliest known work, the Annunciation, Manfrini Gallery, Venice, shows careful and conscientious work, but a lack of strength. The Resurrection in the Berlin Museum is one of his most agreeable works, and his best example out of Italy. One of his largest altar-*pieces is Coronation of St. Catherine of Siena, Venice Academy. Thought by C. & C. to be identical with Pietro de' Ingannati, author of a Madonna in Berlin Museum.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 286; Burckhardt, 602; Lermolieff, 179, 412; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 554.

BITTERLICH, EDUARD, born at Stupnicka, Galicia, in 1840, died at Pressbaum, near Vienna, May 20, 1872. History painter; pupil in Vienna of Waldmüller; became afterwards the most prominent assistant of Rahl, after whose death he executed, with Griepenkerl, that master's compositions for the new Opera House. Works: Pompeian Scenes, Palazzo Ypsilanti; Twenty Lunettes, Dining Room, Grand Hôtel; The Arts, Tietz Mansion; Paintings in Palace Epstein, all in Vienna.—Kunst-Chronik, vii. 37.

BIZZERA. See Becerra.

BLAAS, EUGEN, born at Albano, near Rome, July 24, 1843. History painter; son and pupil of Karl Blaas; studied at Venice Academy, and at the Vienna Academy, whence he went to Rome and Paris as Austrian pensionary. Visited afterwards Belgium and England, and settled in Venice, whence he draws most of his subjects. Works: Conversion of the Rætians by St. Valentine, Introduction of Decameron Giotto and Cimabue, Faust and Marguerite, Dogaressa going to Church, Bridal Procession in S. Marco, Venetian Masquerade, The Page, Scene from Decameron, Venetian Balcony Scene, Serious Story, Excursion to Murano, Vienna Museum.—Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 376; Müller, 53; Illustr. Zeitg. (1871), ii. 238; (1883), i. 525; ii. 403.

BLAAS, JULIUS, born at Albano in 1843. Animal painter, especially of horses; son and pupil of Karl B., went to Rome, where he painted genre scenes from the Campagna; afterwards made a trip around the world. Works: Race of Intoxicated Slavonic Peasants (1860), Vienna Museum; Fox and Stag Hunts, Horse-herds, etc.

BLAAS, KARL VON, born at Nauders, Tyrol, May 28, 1815. History painter; pupil of Venice Academy under Lipparini, then in Florence and Rome, where, influenced by Overbeck and Koch, he devoted himself to ecclesiastical art, and genre scenes of a ritual character. In 1850 he was appointed professor at the Vienna Academy, painted several frescos in the Alt-Lerchenfeld church, and accepted in 1855 the nomination as professor at the Venice Academy. Some years later he began to execute for the Vienna Arsenal forty-two fresco paintings, from Austrian history, which occupied him eleven years. Recently he has, besides portraits, painted genre and mythological scenes. Works: Tullia driving over her Father's Body (1832); Miracle of Roses, Return of Jacob from Laban (1841), Vienna Museum; Madonna in Glory, St. Catherine borne by Angels, Christ at Emmaus, Christ on Mount of Olives, Mass for Reapers in the Campagna, thirty-three frescos for church at Fóth, near Pesth, Charlemagne visiting Boys' School, Vienna Museum; Portrait of Cardinal Primate of Hungary (1854); Rape of Venetian Brides in 6th century (1858), Innsbruck Museum; forty-two scenes in fresco, Vienna Arsenal; Rape of a Nymph, Danaë, Nymph and Satyr; Sunday Morning at Albano (1879); Adam and Eve, C. C. Per-