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Nantes Museum; Vision of St. Jerome (1829), Louvre; Christ on the Cross (1829), Church at Issingeaux; Anacreon (1833).—Ch. Blanc, École française; Éloge historique de X. S. (1848); Bellier, ii. 502.

SIGISMONDA, William Hogarth, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. 1-1/2 in. Mourning over the heart of Guiscardo. Sigismonda or Ghismonda, daughter of Tancred, Prince of Salerno, loved and secretly married Guiscardo, a poor but noble page. Tancred, having discovered the union, caused Guiscardo to be strangled and sent his heart in a golden cup to Sigismonda, who escaped from life by a poisoned draft which she had prepared in expectation of her husband's doom. Painted in 1759 for Sir Richard Grosvenor, who declined it; sold at Mrs. Hogarth's sale for 56 guineas; sold in 1807 for 400 guineas; bequeathed in 1879 by J. H Anderdon. Engraved (1792) by B. Smith.

SIGMUND III., King of Poland, born in Stockholm, June 20, 1566, died in Warsaw, April 30, 1632. History painter. One of his pictures was taken for a Tintoretto. Works: Allegory of Foundation of Jesuit Convent, Schleissheim Gallery; Mater Dolorosa, Augsburg Gallery.

SIGNOL, ÉMILE, born in Paris, March 11 (May 8, Bellier), 1804. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Blondel and Gros; won the 2d grand prix de Rome in 1829, and the grand prix in 1830. Medals: 2d class, 1834; 1st class, 1835; L. of Honour, 1841; Officer, 1865; Member of Institute, 1860. Works: Joseph telling his Dream to his Brothers (1824); Meleager taking up Arms (1830); Death of Virginia, Roman Peasants (1833); Noah cursing his Son (1834), Aix Museum; Christ at the Tomb (1835), Comtesse Potowska; Christian Religion coming to the Aid of the Afflicted (1837); Louis XV. consecrated in Rheims (1838), Versailles Museum; Preaching the Second Crusade (1839), ib.; Woman taken in Adultery (1840), Luxembourg Museum; Magdalen, Mystic Virgin (1842); Portrait of Louis VII. (1842), Versailles Museum; do. of Godfrey de Bouillon (1844), ib.; do. of Saint Louis (1844), ib.; Capture of Jerusalem in 1099 (1848), ib.; Bride of Lammermoor, Fairy and Peri (1850); Legislators under Evangelical Inspiration (1853), Palais du Sénat; Descent from the Cross (1853); Pietà, Magdalen (1855); Crusaders passing the Bosphorus (1855), Capture of Jerusalem (1855), Versailles Museum; Holy Family (1859); Wise and Foolish Virgins (1863); Punishment of a Vestal (1863), Arras Museum; Rhadamistus and Zenobia (1863); Soldier of Marathon, Exposure of Moses, Joseph sold by his Brethren (1878); Crusaders coming in Sight of Jerusalem in First Crusade (1880), Versailles Museum; Tancred on the Mount of Olives (1880), ib.; Portraits of Dagobert I., Clovis II., Childéric II., Thierry I., Dagobert II., Thierry II., Childéric III., ib. He has also executed works for churches: Death of the Magdalen (1838), Madeleine; Decorations in St. Joseph's Chapel, Saint-Severin (1845); do. in Chapelle des Catéchismes, Saint-Eustache (1851); do. in Saint-Eustache (1856); do. in Saint-Augustin (1862); Betrayal of Jesus and Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension (1876), Saint-Sulpice.—Bellier ii. 502; Vapereau; Larousse.

SIGNORELLI, LUCA D' EGIDIO DI VENTURA DE', born in Cortona in 1441, died there in 1523. Tuscan school; pupil in Arezzo of his uncle, Lazzaro Vasari, and of Pietro della Francesca, with whom he remained until 1460. The evident influence of Antonio Pollajuolo and Andrea Verrocchio upon Signorelli makes it probable that he spent a portion of his time at Florence before 1472, and from 1474 to 1476—years of which no record is preserved—in