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*donna of the Green Cushion, Louvre; Portraits (2), National Gallery, London; Christ crowned with Thorns, at Lütschena, near Leipsic; Holy Family, dated 1515, Casa Poldi, Milan; and Madonna with St. John, Leuchtenberg Gallery, St. Petersburg. Solario's portraits are of exceptional excellence. C. & C. attribute to him the Columbine, Hermitage, St. Petersburg, generally ascribed to B. Luini.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 51; Moschini (Florence, 1832); Burckhardt, 702; Calvi, Notizie, ii. 277; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 448; Gaz. des B. Arts (1883), xxviii. 43.
SOLARIO, ANTONIO. See Zingaro.
SOLIERO. See Morelli.
SOLIMENA (Solimene), FRANCESCO,
Cavaliere, born at
Nocera de' Pagani,
Oct. 4, 1657,
died in Naples,
April 5, 1747. Neapolitan
school;
called sometimes
l'Abate Ciccio
and sometimes il
Calabrese ringentilito
(Calabrese
ennobled).
Pupil of his father, Angelo Solimene, a respectable
painter; afterwards of Francesco di
Maria and of Giacomo del Po. Later formed
a style of his own by imitating Pietro da
Cortona, Lanfranco, Calabrese, Guido, and
Carlo Maratti. He enjoyed a great reputation
in his time, and was employed by several
popes and by most of the princes of
Europe; but he must be ranked with those
who hastened the deterioration of Italian
art. Among his works are: The Brazen
Serpent, Prometheus Chained, St. John the
Baptist, Artist's Portrait, Madrid Museum;
Religion, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; frescos
in sacristies of S. Paolo and S. Domenico
Maggiore, Naples; Heliodorus, Gesù Nuovo,
ib.; Diana and Callisto, Uffizi, Florence.—Lanzi,
ii. 60; Burckhardt, 768, 775; Seguier,
196; Ch. Blanc, École napolitaine.
SOLIS, FRANCISCO DE, born in Madrid
in 1629, died there, Sept. 25, 1684.
Spanish school; his father, who had studied
under Alonso de Herrera, gave him lessons
in painting, but educated him for the
church. Francisco preferred to paint, and
with Velasquez for a friend and counsellor,
bade fair to become pre-eminent in his profession;
but his indolence and wealth made
him a picture collector rather than a painter.
Executed works for the conventual
churches of Madrid, Alcalá, and Valladolid,
of which the best was a Virgin of the Conception,
belonging to the Capuchins of the
Prado.—Stirling, iii. 1022.
SOLOMON, ABRAHAM, born in London
in 1824, died at Biarritz, France, Dec.
19, 1862. Genre painter, pupil of the Royal
Academy, where he exhibited his first picture,
The Courtship of Ditchen (subject from
Crabbe), in 1843. His best pictures are well
known through engravings. Works: Third
Class—Parting, First Class—Return (1854);
Waiting for the Verdict (1857); Not Guilty
(1859); Malade Imaginaire, Consolation
(1861); The Lost Found (1862).
SOLOMON, HISTORY OF, Raphael.
See Raphael's Bible.
SOLOMON, JUDGMENT OF, Nicolas
Poussin, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4
in. × 4 ft. 11 in. Solomon, seated upon an
elevated throne, in centre, extending his
hands, pronounces sentence; in foreground,
the mothers kneeling, one making a gesture
of terror at seeing her child, which a soldier
armed with a sword holds by one foot; the
other, holding the dead child, cries out
against the execution of the judgment;
other women and soldiers standing. Painted
in 1649; at Versailles in 1709-10. Sketch
in Louvre. Engraved by Chasteau; E. Baudet;
Dughet; Drevet; A. Testa; Anne;
André Morel; C. Normand.—Landon, Musée,
vi. Pl. 65; Filhol, viii. Pl. 541.
By Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican; fresco on ceiling. Solomon enthroned, at right; a man at left about to cut in two the child, whom he holds by one leg,