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Show ART AND ARTISTS. Fra Bartolomeo was the intimate friend of Raphael, and is believed to have finished many pictures planned or sketched by the latter. Gajnrbobougu has rarely been surpassed sur-passed in the technique of his art. It is rare to find one of his pictures cracked or impaired. Zamfiehi was the son of a shoemaker and himself followed that callinp. He was the upliest man of his time and badly deformed. M APACcio was originally named Maso, the addition to the name being by way of reproach for his negligence and slovenliness in dress. Ohcaoxa's Last Judgment, now in the Carapo Santo at Pisa, was, in the fourteenth century, deemed the greatest great-est picture in the world. Pordl.voxk's saints were depicted with so great a display of muscle that it was commonly said all his holy men looked like prize fighters. TiN'roitKTTo's real name was Jacozo Robusti. lie was called Tintoretto from being the son of a dyer, the word Tin-tore Tin-tore having that meaning. Tiflio did his best work after sixty years of age. He lost one eye at that time, but painted with the same correctness cor-rectness until he became totally blind. |