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scholars. Obtained the favour of Urban VIII., who commissioned him to paint the miracle of St. Gregory for St. Peter's, now in the Vatican. His work entitled Divine Wisdom, Palazzo Barberini, gained him great reputation, which was enhanced by his Vision of St. Romuald, Vatican. Sacchi was considered the most able painter in Rome of his day. He was one of the best colourists of the Roman school, and a correct designer; and if his works sometimes lack in power, it is because he did not possess enough of the artistic temperament to express his noble conceptions.—Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 793.
SACCHI DI PAVIA, PIER-FRANCESCO, painted in Genoa in 1512-26. Genoese school. Lomazzo, who calls him Pier-Francesco Pavese, says that he painted in Mantua about 1460; but Lanzi thinks there must have been two of the name. His style is of the Lombard school, and especially like that of Carlo Mantegna. Works: Christ on the Cross (1514), Berlin Museum; Doctors of the Church with Symbols of the Evangelists (1516), Louvre; St. John Baptist taking Leave of his Parents (dated 1512), Oratory of S. Maria, Genoa; Three Saints in a Landscape, S. M. di Castello, Genoa.—Lanzi, iii. 237; Ch. Blanc, École génoise; Burckhardt, 610; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 500.
SACCHIENSIS. See Pordenone.
SACHS, MICHAEL EMIL, born at Hadamar,
Hesse-Nassau, in 1836. Landscape
painter, pupil in Carlsruhe of Schirmer
(1855-58), and in Düsseldorf of Oswald
Achenbach (1858-60); lived at Wiesbaden
in 1860-65, then settled at Partenkirchen,
Bavaria, where he is director of a central
school for wood carving. Paints with fine
conception and great truth. Works: Views
on the Rhine and Lahn; In the Eifel; The
Taunus and the Bavarian Alps.—Müller,
455.
SACHTLEVEN. See Saft-Leven.
SACK OF A JEW'S HOUSE, Joseph
Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Luxembourg Museum;
canvas, H. 8 ft. × 6 ft. 8 in. Pillage of
a house in the Judecca, Venice, in the middle
ages. "Under the slightest pretext,
the people ran to the Jews' quarter, broke
open their houses, and pillaged their treasures."
Salon, 1855.
SACRA FAMILIA. See Holy Family.
SACRAMENTS, SEVEN, Nicolas Poussin,
Bridgewater House, London; series of
seven pictures, canvas, each H. 3 ft. 10
in. × 5 ft. 9 in. 1. Baptism; 2. Confirmation;
3. Marriage; 4. Penitence; 5. Ordination;
6. Last Supper; 7. Extreme Unction.
Painted at Rome in 1644-48 for M. Chantelou,
from whom bought by the Regent Philippe,
Duc d'Orléans, for 120,000 livres; purchased
from Orleans Gallery by Duke of
Bridgewater for £4,900. Engraved by B.
Audran; Pesne; Dughet; Gantrel; and in
Orleans Gallery.—Waagen, Treasures, ii.
39; Smith, viii. 63.
SACRED WOOD (Le Bois sacré, cher
aux Arts et aux Muses), Pierre Puvis de
Chavannes, Paris; canvas. A large allegorical
picture containing a lake with wooded
banks and a temple in a flowery meadow
with figures in semi-classic draperies, some
standing, some reclining, and two, at left,
flying, representing the Arts and the Muses.
Salon, 1884.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1884), xxix.
470, 488.
SADÉE, PHILIP, born at The Hague,
Feb. 7, 1837. Genre painter, pupil of the
Hague Academy under J. E. J. van den
Berg; visited France and Germany, painted
at first historical subjects, then excellent
scenes from peasant and fishermen's life.
Medals in Amsterdam, The Hague, and
Vienna. Works: Potato Harvest in the