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SALAI (Salaino), ANDREA, born in Milan
about 1483, died after 1520. Lombard
school; often confounded
with Andrea Solari
or Solario. Pupil of
Leonardo da Vinci, of
whom he was at once
servant, assistant, and
friend, accompanying
him wherever he went.
On Leonardo's death in
France Salai returned
to Italy. He left but
few pictures, in the manner of Da Vinci:
Madonna with Saints, Brera, Milan; Christ
bearing the Cross, Berlin Museum; St.
Anna, Leuchtenberg Gallery, St. Petersburg.—Vasari,
ed. Le Mon., vii. 28, 43; Lanzi, ii.
489; Burckhardt, 629, 708; Ch. Blanc, École
milanaise; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 444.
SALAMIS, BATTLE OF, Wilhelm von
Kaulbach, Maximilianeum, Munich. Great
naval victory, won by the Greeks under
Themistocles over the fleet of Xerxes, B.C.
480, in the narrow channel between the
island of Salamis and the coast of Attica.
Xerxes, seated on a throne upon a headland
at left, surrounded by his women and
courtiers, witnesses the overthrow and destruction
of his magnificent fleet, seen in
the background; in foreground, the shore,
with a temple at right, and a confused mass
of wreckage and of struggling figures; above,
the avenging gods of Greece in the sky.
SALENTIN, HUBERT, born at Zülpich,
Rhenish Prussia, Jan.
15, 1822. Genre and
landscape painter, pupil
of Düsseldorf Academy
under Schadow,
Karl Sohn, and Tidemand;
paints attractive
and characteristic
scenes from peasant
life in Western Germany.
Works: Hermit's
Sermon; Smith's Apprentice, Grandmother's
Birthday (1860); Bridal Procession
of Playing Children; Blind Boy, Besançon
Museum; Village Church (1862), Düsseldorf
Gallery; Pilgrims at Mineral Spring (1866),
Cologne Museum; Sunday Afternoon Visit
at the Shepherd's; Messengers of Spring
(1869), Prague Gallery; Pilgrims at a Chapel
(1870), National Gallery, Berlin; Children
scouring a Kettle, Stettin Museum; Come
over! (1872); Crown Prince in the Country
(1873); Little Congratulators (1879); Foundling,
Shepherd Children (1880).—Dioskuren,
1860; Müller, 457; Zeitschr. f. b. K.,
vi. 150.
SALERNO, ANDREA DA. See Andrea.
SALIMBENI, VENTURA, Cavaliere, born
in Siena in 1557,
died there in
1613. Sienese
school; son and
pupil of Arcangiolo
Salimbeni,
but studied carefully
the works
of Correggio.
Lived in Rome in
1585-90, and
much employed there. On his return to
Siena painted many pictures for churches;
worked also in Pisa, Lucca, and Perugia.
Knighted in Perugia through influence of
Cardinal Bevilacqua, who permitted him to
bear his name. In 1605 painted with Poccetti
frescos in SS. Annunziata, Florence,
and afterward worked in Genoa with Agostino
Tassi. Among his pictures are: Holy
Family, Pitti; Apparition of the Virgin,
Uffizi; Miracle of the Manna, Angels, Duomo,
Pisa; Trinity, SS. Concezzione, Siena;
Christ bearing the Cross, S. Agostino,
ib.; Crucifixion, S. Domenico, ib.—Vasari,
ed. Le Mon., xi. 168; Lanzi, i. 313; Ch.
Blanc, École florentine; Burckhardt, 759.
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, John Constable,
S. Kensington Museum; canvas, H. 2
ft. 10 in. × 3 ft. 6 in. The Cathedral seen
from the meadows, with a brook and four
cows in foreground. Royal Academy, 1823.
Painted for Bishop of Salisbury. A similar