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Won the commendation of Raphael and executed other works in Rome, none of which are existing. After Raphael's death he returned to San Gimignano, where he painted in 1522 a Madonna with Saints. He was again in Rome in 1527, when the city was sacked, and went thence to Montalcino, where he painted for the oratory of the convent of S. Rocco the Madonna del Soccorso, now in the Church of the Soccorso. In 1528 he painted for S. Stefano d' Ischia, near Grosseto, St. Joachim and St. Anna. His last known work, dated 1529, is a Madonna with Saints, in the Chapel of S. Niccolò di Tolentino.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 489; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.
VINCENZO DA TREVISO. See Catena.
VINCHON, AUGUSTE (JEAN BAPTISTE),
born in Paris, Aug. 5, 1789, died
at Ems, Nassau, Aug. 16, 1855. History
and portrait painter, pupil of Gioacchino
Serangeli, of David, and the École des
Beaux Arts; won the second prix de Rome
in 1813, and the first in 1814. L. of Honour,
1828. Medal, 2d class, 1855. Works:
Diagoras carried in Triumph by his Sons
(1814), École des Beaux Arts, Paris; Devotion
of young Mazet (1822), Lazaretto, Marseilles;
Death of Comola (1824); Jeanne
d'Arc (1824), Orléans Museum; Greek Subject
(1830), Amiens Museum; Coronation
of Charles VII. at Reims (1837), Entry of
the French into Bordeaux—1451 (1838),
Opening of the Session of Chambers by
Louis XVIII. (1841), Enlisting of Volunteers
(1849), Two Portraits, Versailles Museum;
Achille de Harlay (1843); The
States General under Philip the Fair—1302
(1846); Episode in History of Venice
(1847),formerly in Luxembourg Museum;
Martyrs in the Time of Diocletian (1852);
Achille de Harlay and the Duc de Guise
(1854); Grisailles in Salles 4, 7, 8, and 9 of
Musée Charles X., Louvre, Paris; Presentation
of the Virgin, Notre Dame de Lorette,
ib.; Abundance rewarding Industry, Truth
exposing Fraud, and six grisailles: City of
Paris, Agriculture, etc., Palais de la Bourse,
ib. In fresco: Two Episodes in Life of St.
Maurice, Angels decorating the Vault from
which the Souls of the Thebaian Legion
soar to Heaven (1822), St. Maurice's Chapel,
Saint Sulpice, Paris.—Ballard, Not. sur les
peint. à fresque, etc. (Paris, 1822); Bellier,
ii. 692; Meyer, Gesch., 431; Rev. univ. des
arts, i. 475.
VINCI, LEONARDO DA, born at Vinci,
Val d' Arno,
near Florence,
in 1452, died at
the Château de
Clot or Cloux,
near Amboise,
May 2, 1519.
Florentine
school. Natural
son of Sor
Piero d' Antonio,
Florentine notary; pupil of Andrea del
Verrocchio, with whom he was associated
as late as 1476. The bright angel which
he painted in his master's picture of the
Baptism of Christ, Florence Academy, the
Medusa Head, at the Uffizi (if indeed it be
the original, and not, as has been conjectured,
the work of Lomazzo), are the only
extant works of the earlier period of his life,
which closed in 1483, when he wrote the
famous letter to Lodovico Sforza, Duke of
Milan, whose statement of universal capacity
was in his case literally true. It led to his
appointment as court painter, director of
the newly founded Academy of Arts, general
organizer of fêtes in which art played a
conspicuous part, and manager of all enterprises
in which a knowledge of hydraulics,
engineering, and general science was necessary.
For the Duke he executed the famous
wall-painting of the Last Supper (1495-98),
in S. M. delle Grazie, and modelled an
equestrian statue, never cast, of his father,
Francesco Sforza, and with him he remained
until Lodovico was overthrown by the
French (1499), and sent to France to die in
a dungeon at the Castle of Loches. Leonardo
returned to Florence, but soon left it