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BAGNACAVALLO, BARTOLOMMEO (1484-1542)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 202 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAGNACAVALLO, BARTOLOMMEO (1484-1542) , See also:Italian painter, His real name was RAMENGHI, but he received the cognomen Bagnacavallo from the little See also:village where he was See also:born. He studied first under See also:Francia, and then proceeded to See also:Rome, where he became a See also:pupil of See also:Raphael. While studying under him he worked along with many others at the decoration of the See also:gallery in the Vatican, though it is not known what portions are his See also:work. On his return to See also:Bologna he quickly took the leading See also:place as an artist, and to him were due the See also:great improvements in the See also:general See also:style of what has been called the Bolognese school. His See also:works were considered to be inferior in point of See also:design to some other productions of the school of Raphael, but they were distinguished by See also:rich colouring and graceful delineation. They were highly esteemed by Guido Reni and the Carracci, who studied them carefully and in some points imitated them. The best specimens of Bagnacavallo's works, the " Dispute of St See also:Augustine," and a " Madonna and See also:Child, are at Bologna. BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE, a See also:town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of Hautes-See also:Pyrenees, 13 M. S.S.E. of See also:Tarbes on a See also:branch See also:line of the See also:Southern railway. Pop. (1906) 6661. It is beautifully situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Adour, at the See also:northern end of the valley of See also:Campan, and the vicinity abounds in picturesque See also:mountain scenery.

The town is remarkably neat and clean and many of the houses are built or ornamented with See also:

marble. It is one of the See also:principal watering-places in France, and has some fifty See also:mineral springs, characterized chiefly by the presence of sulphate of See also:lime or See also:iron. Their temperature ranges approximately from 59° to 122° Fahr., and they are efficacious in cases of See also:rheumatism, See also:nervous affections, indigestion and other maladies. The See also:season begins in May and terminates about the end of See also:October, during which See also:time the See also:population is more than doubled. The See also:Promenade See also:des Coustous is the centre of the See also:life of Bagneres. See also:Close by stands the See also:church of St See also:Vincent of the 14th and 15th centuries. The old See also:quarter of the town, in which there are several old houses, contains a graceful octagonal See also:tower of the 15th See also:century, the remains of a Jacobin monastery. The Neothermes, occupying See also:part of the See also:casino, and the Thermes (dating from 1824), which has a See also:good library, are the principal bathing-establishments; both are town See also:property. The other See also:chief buildings include the Carmelite church, remains of the old church of St See also:Jean, a museum and the town-See also:hall. Bagneres has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, and a communal See also:college. The manufacture of barege, a See also:light fabric of See also:silk and See also:wool, and the See also:weaving and See also:knitting of woollen goods, See also:wood-turning and the working of marble found in the neighbourhood and imported from elsewhere, are among the See also:industries, and there are also See also:slate quarries. Eagneres was much frequented by the See also:Romans, under whom it was known as Vicus Aquensis, but afterwards lost its renown.

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history in the 12th century when Centulle III., See also:count of Bigorre, granted it a liberal See also:charter. The See also:baths See also:rose into permanent importance in the 16th century, when they were visited by Jeanne d'See also:Albret, See also:mother of See also:Henry IV., and by many other distinguished persons. BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, a town of south-western France, in the department of Haute-See also:Garonne, 87 m. S.S.W. of See also:Toulouse, on a branch line of the Southern railway from Montrejeau. Pop. (1906) 3448. The town is situated at the See also:foot of the central Pyrenees in a beautiful valley at the confluence of the One and the Pique. It is celebrated for its thermal springs and as a fashionable resort. Of the promenades the finest and most frequented are the Allees d'Etigny, an See also:avenue planted with lime-trees, at the southern extremity of which is the Thermes, or bathing-See also:establishment, one of the most See also:complete in existence. The springs, which number 48, vary in See also:composition, but are chiefly impregnated with sulphate of See also:sodium, and range in temperature from 62° to 150. A large casino was opened in the town in 1877. The See also:discovery of numerous See also:Roman remains attests the antiquity of the baths, which are identified with the Onesiorum Thermae of See also:Strabo.

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modern times See also:dates from the latter See also:half of the 18th century, and was due to See also:Antoine Megret d'Etigny, See also:intendant of See also:Auch.

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