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CARAVAGGIO, POLIDORO CALDARA DA (1495 or 1492-1543) , a celebrated painter of See also:

FRIEZE

frieze and other decorations in the Vatican. His merits were such that, while a See also:

mere See also:

MORTAR

mortar-See also:

carrier to the artists engaged in that See also:

WORK

work, he attracted the admiration of See also:

RAPHAEL (Hebrew smm, " God heals ")

Raphael, then employed on his See also:

GREAT

great pictures in the Loggie of the See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace. Polidoro's See also:

WORKS

works, as well as those of his See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master, Maturino of See also:

Florence, have mostly perished, but are well known by the See also:

FINE

fine etchings of P. S. See also:

BARTOLI, DANIELLO (16o8-1685)

Bartoli, C. See also:

Alberti, &c. On the See also:

SACK

sack of See also:

Rome by the See also:

army of the See also:

Constable de See also:

Bourbon in 1527, Polidoro fled to See also:

Naples. Thence he went to See also:

MESSINA

Messina, where he was much employed, and gained a considerable See also:

FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune, with which he was about to return to the mainland of See also:

Italy when he was robbed and murdered by an assistant, Tonno Calabrese, in 1543. Two of his See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal paintings are a Crucifixion, painted in Messina, and " See also:

Christ bearing the See also:

CROSS

Cross " in the Naples See also:

GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

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