Aged 62. Ridolfi. iii. 158.
Boniforti, Girolamo, of Macera, painted in the seventeenth century. MS. Or rather Francesco, who was living, aged 77, in 1671. Carteg. Oretti. ii. 222.
Bonini, Gio. d'Assisi, painted in 1321. Della Valle. ii. 15.
—— Girolamo, called at Bologna L'Anconitano, was living in 1660. Orlandi. ii. 217, v. 140.
Bonino, Gaspare, a Cremonese, flourished about 1460. Zaist. iv. 151.
Bonisoli, Agostino, a Cremonese, d. 1700, aged 67. Zaist. iv. 198.
Bonito, Cav. Gius., of Castell'a Mare, b. 1705. Flor. Dictionary. d. 1789. Roy. Gall. ii. 440.
Bono, Ambrogio, schol. of Loth. Zanetti. iii. 292.
—— Gregorio, a Venetian, painted in 1414. MS. v. 450.
—— N., pupil of Squarcione. Guida di Padova. From the Notizia Morelli we learn he was either a Bolognese or a Ferrarese. iii. 72.
Bonomo, di, Jacobello, a Venetian, lived in 1385. Morelli. iii. 16.
Bonone, Carlo, a Ferrarese, b. 1569, d. 1632. Baruffaldi. v. 330.
—— Lionello, his nephew, lived in 1649. Baruffaldi. v. 334.
Bononi, Bartolommeo, a Pavese, painted in 1507. Pitture d'Italia. iv. 235.
Bonvicino, Alessandro, called Il Moretto da Brescia, b. 1514. Orlandi. Not correct, as he was painting in 1516. Was living in 1547. Zamb. iii. 172.
Bonzi, see Gobbo da Cortona.
Borbone, Jacopo, da Novellara, painted in 1614. Tiraboschi. iv. 54.
Bordone, Cav. Paris, of Treviso, d. 1570, aged 70. Necrologio Veneto, cited by Zanetti. iii. 118, 151.
—— N., son of Paris, iii. 120.
Borgani, Franc., a Mantuan, lived till after the middle of the seventeenth century. MS. iv. 28.
Borghese, Ippol., a Neapolitan, painted in 1620. Orlandi. ii. 379.
—— Giovanni, da Messina, pupil to Costa. Vasari. ii. 388, v. 293.
—— Girolamo, da Nizza della Paglia, painted about 1500. MS. v. 453.
—— Pietro, see Della Francesca.
Borghesi, Gio. Ventura, of Città di Castello, d. 1708. Orlandi. ii. 266.
Borgianni, Orazio, a Roman, d. in the pontificate of Paul V., aged 38. Baglione. ii. 234.
Borgo, da, Francesco, painted in 1446. Guida di Rimini. v. 41.
—— del, Gio. Paolo, painted about 1545. Vasari. i. 272.
Borgognone, Ambrogio, a Milanese, flourished about 1500. See Lomazzo. iv. 232.
—— il, see Cortesi.
Borro, Batista, Aretino, lived in 1567. Vasari. i. 227.
Borroni, Cav. Gio. Angelo, a Cremonese, b. 1684, d. 1772. Zaist. iv. 158, 201.
Borsati, Carlo, Fantozzi Franc., Setti Camillo, all Ferrarese, and supposed pupils to Cattanio. v. 341.
Borzone, Luciano, a Genovese, b. 1590. Soprani. v. 418.
—— Gio. Batista, his son, d. about 1656. Soprani. v. 419.
—— Carlo, another son, d. young, in 1657. Soprani. ib.
—— Francesco, son of Luciano, b. 1626, d. 1679. Ratti. v. 421.
Bosch, (as he signs his name,) called by Orlandi Bosco or Boss da Bolduch, extolled by Mazzolari for his Capricci in the Escurial. He painted at Venice, Zanetti; and apparently towards the year 1600. iii. 340.
Boschi, Fabrizio, a Florentine, b. about 1570, d. 1642. Baldinucci. i. 291.
—— Francesco, a Florentine, b. 1619, d. 1675. Baldinucci. i. 308.
—— Alfonso, his brother, d. young. Baldinucci. ib.
—— Benedetto, another brother. Baldinucci. i. 308.
Boschini, Marco, a Venetian, d. 1678, aged 65. Melchiori. iii. 259, v. 203. See Index Second.
Boscoli, Andrea, a Florentine, d. about 1606. Baldinucci. i. 259.
Boselli, Antonio, a Bergamese. His notices from 1500 to 1536. Tassi. iii. 84, 130.
—— Felice, di Piacenza, b. 1650, d. aged 82. Guida di Piacenza. iv. 143.
Bottalla, Gio. Maria, a Genoese, called Raffaellino, d. 1644, aged 31. Soprani. ii. 269, v. 426.
Bottani, Giuseppe, a Cremonese, b. 1717, d. 1784. MS. iv. 30, 201, 202.
Botti, Rinaldo, a Florentine, lived in 1718. Orlandi. i. 328.
Botticelli, Sandro Filippi. Taia. Or rather Filipepi, a Florentine, b. 1437, d. 1515. Vasari. i. 91, 135.
Boulanger, Gio., of Troyes, pupil to Guido. Tiraboschi. d. 1660, aged 94. Lettera Scritta da Modena al P. Orlandi Cart. Oretti. iv. 62.
Bova, Ant., a Messinese, d. 1711, aged 70. Hakert. ii. 412.
Bozza, Bartol., a Venetian, when young a mosaic worker, about 1542, d. old. Zanetti. iii. 253.
Bozzato, see Ponchino.
Braccioli, Gio. Francesco, a Ferrarese, b. 1697. Baruffaldi. d. 1762. Crespi. v. 345.
Bramante, Lazzari, of Castel Durante, now Urbania, in the state of Urbino, called also Bramante of Urbino, b. 1444, d. 1514. Vasari. Documents shewing him to have been of Durante, are inserted in the 27th vol. of Sig. Colucci. According to others Bramante's family was of Castel Durante; but he was born in Monte Asdrualdo, a villa of Fermignano, four miles from Urbino. Hence he is called Asdruvaldinus. The surname of Lazzari is merely feigned. Said to have been born 1450. See Colucci, tom. xii. and xxxi. ii. 64, 80, iv. 226.
Bramantino, di, Agostino, a Milanese, flourished about 1450. Pagave. Or rather was a disciple of Suardi. Lomazzo, in the Index. iv. 215.
—— or Bartol. Suardi, a Milanese, living in 1529. Pagave. iv. 229.
Brambilla, Gio. Bat., living in Turin in 1770. N. Guida di Turino. v. 476.
Brandani, Federigo, di Urbino, d. 1575. Lazzari. ii. 172.
Brandi, Dom., a Neapolitan, d. 1736, aged 53. Dominici. ii. 444.
—— Giacinto, b. at Poli, 1623, d. 1691. Pascoli. Others make him from Gaeta. ii. 213, v. 477.
—— di, see Ottini.
Brandimarte, Benedetto, a Lucchese, living in 1592. Orlandi. i. 278.
Brandine, and Flaminet, lived about 1610. Marino. v. 469.
Brandino, Ottaviano, called in the Notizia Ottaviano da Brescia, and companion of Alticchiero. iii. 30.
Bravo, Cecco, see Montelatici.
—— Giacomo, of Trevisi, lived in 1638. Federici. iii. 272.
Brazzè, Gio. Batista, called Il Bigio, a Florentine, pupil to Empoli. Baldinucci. i. 332.
Brea, Lodovico, da Nizza. His notices in Genoa from 1483 to 1513. Soprani. v. 363.
Brentana, Simone, a Venetian, b. 1656, was living in 1718. Orlandi. iii. 372.
Brescia, da, Gio. Maria and Gio. Antonio, ancient engravers. Orlandi. i. 122.
—— F. Gio. Maria, a Carmelite monk, painted in Brescia about 1500. Orlandi. v. 362.
—— F. Girolamo, a Carmelite monk, painted at Savona in 1519. Guida di Genoa. v. ib.
—— da, F. Raffaello. See Guida di Bologna. d. 1539, aged 60. Galletti. Inscript. Venetæ Romæ extantes. In the inscription he is called Roberti; whether his surname or a second name, iii. 89.
—— Leonardo, a Ferrarese, flourished in 1530. Orlandi. d. 1598. Baruffaldi. v. 307.
Brescianino, delle Battaglie, see Monti.
—— del, Andrea, a Sienese, flourished along with his brother about 1520. Della Valle. i. 407.
Bresciano, Vincenzo, see Foppa.
Brill, Matteo, of Antwerp, b. 1550, d. 1584. Baldinucci. Date to be corrected on the authority of the inscription, which says he died aged 37. Galletti, Insc. Romanæ, tom. ii. p. 406. ii. 170.
—— Paolo, his brother, b. 1554, d. 1626. Baldinucci. ii. ib.
Brini, Francesco, a painter of the seventeenth century. MS. i. 315.
Briziano, see Mantovano, Gio. Batista.
Brizio, Franc., a Bolognese, d. 1623, aged 49. Malvasia. v. 191.
—— Filippo, his son, d. 1675, aged 72. Oretti dal Necrologio di S. Giuliano di Bologna. v. 192.
—— del, Menichino, see Degli Ambrogi.
Brizzi, Serafino, a Bolognese, b. 1684, d. 1737. Zanotti. v. 275.
Bronzino, Angiolo, a Florentine, was living in 1567, aged 65. Vasari. d. aged 69. Borghini. i. 253.
—— Alessandro, see Allori.
Bruggia, da, or da Brugges, see Van Eych, see Ausse.
Brughel, Abramo, a Flamand, died at Naples about 1690. Dominici. ii. 423.
—— dall'Inferno. He signed himself P. Breughel, as I read it on a little picture in Palazzo Lante at Rome, dated 1660. He is also called Pietro Brughel the younger, to distinguish him from his father, who had the same name. iii. 340.
—— Gio., brother of the preceding, b. at Brussels about 1589. Descamps. d. 1642. Filibien. iv. 285.
Brughi, thus called in the Guida di Roma, Gio. Batista, a Roman, pupil to Gaulli, d. about 1730. Ratti. ii. 300.
Brugieri, Gio. Domenico, a Lucchese, b. 1678, d. 1744. Flor. Dictionary. i. 359.
Brugno, Innocento, a Udinese, lived in 1610. Renaldis. iii. 296.
Brun, le, Charles, a Parisian, b. 1619, d. 1690. Royal Gallery of Florence. ii. 307.
Brunelleschi, Filippo, a Florentine, d. 1446, aged 69. Vasari. i. 71.
—— Giulio, a Udinese, b. 1551, painted in 1609. MS. iii. 295.
Brunetti, Sebastiano, pupil to Guido. Malvasia. d. 1649. Oretti, Memorie. v. 155.
Bruni, Domenico, a Brescian, d. 1666, aged 75. Orlandi. iii. 345.
—— Lucio. His work of 1584. Guida di Vicenza. iii. 308.
—— Girolamo, a pupil of Borgognone. Colonna Catalogue. ii. 254.
Bruno, Nello, Calandrino, friends of Buffalmacco, i. 54.
—— Antonio, pupil to Coreggio. MS. iv. 116.
—— Francesco, da Porto Maurizio, in the Genovese, d. 1726, aged 78. Ratti. v. 426.
—— Giulio, a Piedmontese, pupil to Paggi. Soprani. (called Bruni by Orlandi.) v. 471.
—— Gio. Batista, his brother, and pupil. ib.
—— il, Silvestro Morvillo, a Neapolitan. His works from 1571 to 1597. Dominici. ii. 385.
Brunori, or Brunoini, Federigo, of Gubbio, pupil to Damiani. Ranghiasci. ii. 163.
Brusaferro, Girolamo, a Venetian, lived in 1753. Guida di Rovigo. iii. 354.
Brusasorci, see Riccio.
Budrio, da, see Lippi.
Buffalmacco, Buonamico, of Cristofano, a Florentine, was living in 1351. Baldinucci. i. 53.
Bugiardini, Giuliano, a Florentine, d. 1556, aged 75. Vasari. i. 160, v. 51.
Buonamici, see Tassi.
Buonfanti, Antonio, a Ferrarese, called Il Torricella, a supposed pupil of Guido. Cittadella. v. 341.
Buoni, de', Buono, a Neapolitan, d. about 1465. Dominici. ii. 364.
—— Silvestro, a Neapolitan, d. about 1484. Dominici. ib.
Buontalenti, Bernardo, a Florentine, called delle Girandole, b. 1536, d. 1608. Bottari. i. 251.
Buratti, Girolamo, pupil to Pomaranci. Guida di Ascoli. ii. 228.
Burrini, Gio. Ant., a Bolognese, b. 1656, d. 1727. Zanotti. v.