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Mason (1772). Replica in small, Grosvenor House, London.—Pattison, Claude Lorrain, 67, 217, 233; Waagen, Treasures, iii. 140.
ROMAN EMPIRE, DECLINE OF,
Claude Lorrain, Earl Radnor, Longford
Castle; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 4 ft. 6 in. A sunset,
with antique ruins and an aqueduct.
Liber Veritatis, No. 82. Engraved by J.
Fittler (1772). Replica in small (1661), Grosvenor
House, London.—Pattison, Claude
Lorrain, 67, 214, 219, 234; Waagen, Treasures,
iii. 140.
ROMAN SENATOR'S DREAM, Murillo,
Academia S. Fernando, Madrid; canvas,
semicircular, H. 7 ft. 6 in. × 17 ft. 2 in.
The Senator, seated in a chair asleep, his
wife sleeping on the floor beside him; they
behold the vision of the Virgin, who appears
holding the Child and pointing through
the open door to the site on which she directs
the founding of the Church of S. M.
Maggiore. Painted, with following picture,
about 1656, for S. M. la Blanca, Seville;
taken to Paris by Soult, who gave them, at
the Restoration, to the King, who placed
them in the Louvre; returned to Spain in
1814. Engraved by D. Martinez; etched
by Galvan. Copy by Souchon in Lille Museum.—Curtis,
206; Huard, Vie des Peintres
espagnoles (Paris, 1839-41).
ROMAN SENATOR RELATING HIS
DREAM, Murillo, Academia S. Fernando,
Madrid; canvas, semicircular, H. 7 ft. 6 in.
× 17 ft. 2 in. The Senator and his wife,
kneeling, relate their dream to Pope Liberius,
who sits enthroned at left, attended
by two cardinals; at right, in distance, a
throng of people, and the Pope under a
canopy, assist at the founding of the church.
Same history as above. Engraved by D.
Martinez; etched by Galvan. Copy by
Souchon in Lille Museum.—Curtis, 206.
ROMANELLI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO,
born at Viterbo in 1610 or 1612, died
there, July, 1662. Roman school; pupil at
Rome of Domenichino and of Pietro da Cortona;
won the favour of the Barberini family
and executed frescos in the Vatican to the
satisfaction of Urban VIII. Painted also
Presentation of the
Virgin, for a mosaic
in St. Peter's, a very
successful work. Became
Prince of Academy
of St. Luke.
Followed Cardinal
Barberini to Paris in
1648 and painted
frescos in the Mazarin
Palace. Romanelli returned to Italy in
1651, but was recalled to Paris by Mazarin
in 1659 and received with great favour by
Louis XIV., who intrusted to him the decoration
of several apartments in the Louvre.
This work was finished in 1661, when ill-health
compelled his return to Italy. He
had just built a house near Viterbo, where
he intended to retire and enjoy his wealth
and honours, when he died. He was a
weak, though pleasing, painter. His son
Urbano, also a painter, died young in 1682.
Most of Romanelli's easel pictures are in
churches in Rome, and in Viterbo; among
those in public galleries are: Venus and
Æneas, Venus and Adonis (2), Gathering of
Manna, Louvre, Paris; Allegory on Riches,
Darmstadt Museum; Martyrdom of St.
Lawrence, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Herodias
with the Head of St. John, Schleissheim
Gallery; Victory Dance of Jewesses before
David, The Kings of India doing Homage
to Alexander, Vienna Museum.—Ch. Blanc,
École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 768.
ROMANINO, GIROLAMO, born at Brescia
about 1485, died there in 1566. Venetian
school; supposed pupil of Stefano Rizzi,
or of Floriano Ferramola at Brescia, but
probably studied also under one of the Friulian
masters. Free of guild at Brescia before
1510, when he was a skilled artist in
the manner of the Palmas and of Pellegrino.
At this time he painted the Pietà, now in
the collection of Sir Ivor Guest, England,
which was quickly followed by the Madonna
with Saints, and the Judith, in the Berlin