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ci, and laboured there several years with

Francesco Salviati. He afterwards painted in Florence, Pisa (1529), Bologna (1539), Venice (1542), and Naples (1544). In Florence he was patronized by the Medici, for whom he executed many works, both architectural and decorative. But he is best known by his "Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architetti" (Florence, 1550, 2d ed. 1568)—the first important history of modern art. As a painter he was a weak imitator of Michelangelo. He left many pictures, among which are: Madonna in Glory and Saints, Arezzo Gallery; Supper of St. Gregory (1540), Bologna Gallery; Conception, Lucca Gallery; Holy Family, Palazzo Corsini, Rome; Portrait of Cosimo I. de' Medici, Berlin Museum; Pietà, Dresden Gallery; Holy Family, Leipsic Museum; do. (2), Old Pinakothek, Munich; do. (1), and Christ driving out the Money Changers, Vienna Museum; Three Graces, National Museum, Buda-Pesth; Angel's Salutation, Louvre; Caritas, Madonna and Angels, Madrid Museum; Three Saints, Liverpool Institute.—Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., i. 57; Burckhardt, 94, 157, 221; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 562.

VASSILACCHI, ANTONIO. See Aliense.

VASTAGH, GYÖRGY (George), born at Szegedin, Hungary, in 1834. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, after having fought as a honvéd in the revolutionary war of 1848-49, and then wandered about under great privations, painting portraits and studying national costumes and manners. His pictures, exhibited in Vienna in 1870, immediately attracted attention, and forthwith he won fame with his scenes from gypsy life, for which he made studies in Transylvania and Roumania; thence he moved to Pesth, where he has since become the favourite portrait painter of the Hungarian aristocracy. Works: Group of Children (1871); Declaration of Love at the Hedge, Turkish Gypsies by a Bridge (1872); Gypsies resting in a Church Ruin, Roumanian Gypsies, Fortune Teller, Roumanian Gypsy Girl gathering Mushrooms (1873); Gypsies dancing and playing in Roumanian Peasant Room; Moldavian Gypsies crossing Brook; Wooing in Roumania; Peasant Girl about to sell her Hair; Gypsies at Cards in a Hut; Sunday in Wallachia; Portraits of Count Péchy (1872); Archduke Joseph; Archduchess Clotilde; Archduchess Maria Dorothea (1885).—Allgem. K. C., ix. 306, 622; Land und Meer (1873), ii. 504; (1875), i. 69; ii. 690; (1877), i. 29; (1879), ii. 964; (1880), ii. 949; N. illust. Zeitg. (1873), No. 43; Wurzbach, l. 1.

VASTO, MARQUIS DEL. See Avalos, Alfonso d'.

VAUCHELET, THÉOPHILE AUGUSTE, born at Passy (Paris), March 7, 1802, died in 1873. History and portrait painter, pupil of Abel de Pujol and of Hersent; won the second prize in 1827, and the grand prix de Rome in 1829. Medals: 2d class, 1831; 1st class, 1846, 1861; L. of Honour, 1861. Works: Portraits of Marshals Prince Poniatowski (1834), Duc de Choiseul (1835), Duc de Croy, of General Lecourbe (1836), Capitulation of Magdeburg in 1806, Versailles Museum; Death of the Virgin (1837); Martyrdom of St. Donatus and St. Rogatus (1839), Ministry of Interior; Battle of Ocana in 1809 (1839); Christian Charity (1846), Amiens Museum; Man sustained by Religion (1868); Moderation, Power favouring the Good, Prudence hindering Evil, Palais du Sénat, Paris; Invocation of the Holy Spirit, Chapel of do.; Prophets Daniel and Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Isaiah, Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris; Decoration in Chapel of St.