Polidoro, a Venetian, d. 1565, aged 50. _Zanetti._ iii. 157.

Pollaiuolo, del, Antonio, a Florentine, d. 1498, aged 72. _Vasari._ Or aged 71. _Oretti dall"Epitafio._ i. 97, 112, 121, 136.

---- Pietro, his brother, d. 1498, aged 65. _Vasari._ i. 97.

Pomarance, dalle, _see_ Circignani and Roncalli.

Ponchino, Gio. Batista, called Bozzato di Castelfranco, b. about 1500, painted in 1551. _MS._ d. 1570. _Federici._ Vasari, Ridolfi, Zanetti, Bottari, and Guarienti, who call him Bazzacco, and Brazzacco, are all in a mistake, iii. 66.

Ponte, da, Francesco, b. in Vicenza, was father of Jacopo, and d. 1530, at Ba.s.sano. _Verci._ iii. 74.

---- Jacopo, from his birth-place called Ba.s.sano, or Ba.s.san the elder, d.

1592, aged 82. _Ridolfi._ iii. 198.

---- Francesco, his son, d. 1591, aged 43. _Verci._ iii. 206.

---- Cav. Leandro, another son, d. 1623, aged 65. _Ridolfi._ iii. 206.

---- Gio. Batista, another son, d. 1613, aged 60. _Ridolfi._ iii. 208.

---- Girolamo, another son, d. 1622, aged 62. _Ridolfi._ _ib._

---- da, Gio., a Florentine, d. 1365, aged 59. _Vasari._ i. 54.

Pontormo, da, in the Florentine state, Jacopo Carrucci, b. 1493, d. aged 65. _Vasari._ i. 183, 203.

Ponzone, Matteo, Dalmatino, Cav., a scholar of Peranda. _Zanetti._ iii.

266.

Ponzoni, de", Gio., a Milanese, lived about 1450. _MS._ iv. 223.

Popoli, de", Cav. Giacinto d"Orta, d. 1682. _Dominici._ ii. 405.

Poppi, da, _see_ Morandini.

Por, de, Daniello, called Daniello da Parma, d. 1566, at Rome. _Bottari._ iv. 116.

Porcia, il, _see_ Apollodoro.

Porcello, Gio., a Messinese, b. 1682, d. 1734. _Hak._ ii. 440.

Pordenone, _see_ Licino.

Porettano, Pier Maria, a scholar of the Caracci. _Malvasia._ v. 197.

Porfirio, Bernardino, of the Florentine state, a worker in mosaic, living in 1568. _Vasari._ i. 333.

Porideo, Gregorio, a scholar of t.i.tian, iii. 157.

Porpora, Paolo, a Neapolitan, an academician of S. Luke, 1656, d. about 1680. _Dominici._ ii. 423.

Porro, Maso, a Cortonese, painter on gla.s.s, shortly before 1568. _Vasari._ i. 227.

Porta, Andrea, a Milanese, b. 1656, living in 1718. _Orlandi._ iv. 317.

---- Ferdinando, a Milanese, b. about 1760. _MS._ Or rather b. 1689, d.

about 1767, at Milan. _Oretti_, from a letter of Porta"s friend, iv. 323.

Porta, Giuseppe, called Del Salviati, a native of Garf.a.gnana, d. about 1570, aged 50. _Ridolfi._ i. 252, ii. 129, iii. 243.

---- Orazio, di Monte S. Savino, living in 1568. _Vasari._ i. 270.

---- della, or di S. Marco, F. Bartolommeo Domenicano, a Florentine, called Il Frate, b. 1469, d. 1517. _Baldinucci._ i. 187.

Portelli, Carlo, da Loro, in the Florentine state, scholar of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. _Vasari._ i. 212.

Possenti, Bened., a Bolognese, scholar of the Caracci. _Malvasia._ v. 204.

Poussin, Niccolo, b. at Andeli, in Normandy, 1594, d. 1665. _Bellori._ ii.

237.

---- called Gaspare, _see_ Dughet.

Pozzi, Gio. Batista, a Milanese, painted in 1700. _Nuova Guida di Torino._ v. 478.

---- Gio. Batista, a Milanese, d. in the pontificate of Sixtus V., aged 28.

_Baglione._ ii. 151, iv. 320.

---- Giuseppe, a Roman, d. young in 1765. _MS._ ii. 285.

---- Stefano, his brother, d. 1768. _MS._ _ib._

Pozzo, P. Andrea, a Jesuit of Trent, b. 1642, d. 1709. _Pascoli._ ii. 385, v. 440, 478.

---- Dario, a Veronese, d. 1652, aged about 60. Or rather in 1632. _Pozzo._ ii. 196.

---- dal, Isabella, painted at Turin in 1666. _Nuova Guida di Torino._ v.

481.

---- Mattio, a Paduan, scholar of Squarcione. _Scardeone._ _See also Notizia Morelli._ iii. 74.

Pozzobonelli, Giuliano, a Milanese, living in 1605. _MS._ iv. 317.

Pozzoserrato, or Pozzo Lodovico, of Flanders, living in 1587, d. aged 60.

_Guida di Rovigo._ iii. 338.

Pozzuoli, Gio., da Carpi, d. about 1734. _Tiraboschi._ iv. 72.

Prata, Ranunzio, painted at Pavia about 1635. _MS._ At S. Francesco of Brescia is found an altar-piece representing the Marriage of the Virgin, and bearing the inscription, _Francisci de Prato Caravajensis opus_, 1547, p.r.o.nounced by Oretti to be _rare_. It not being referred to any school, it may be conjectured, after examination, whether the Francesco da Prato be one and the same, or rather two artists. See also P. Donasana, Minor Osservante, who wrote a work on the professors, paintings, and sculpture of Caravaggio: an extremely rare book. iv. 304.