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statue of this name, much ad-| mired, found at Pompeii in 1831, and now in the Museum at Naples, Italy. See FAUN, BARBERINI FAUN, Sleeping Faun, etc.

"The Dancing Faun, a work full of spirit, and admirably restored by Michael Angelo, is a sort of connecting link between the two [the Apollino and the Wrestlers].” Hillard.

Daniel in the Lions' Den. A picture by Peter Paul Rubens (15771640), now in Hamilton Palace. "In this picture the prophet himself-a subordinate and uninteresting figure is only the excuse for a series of studies of lions in various attitudes."

Daniel Webster. See WEBSTER. Dante and Beatrice. A painting by Ary Scheffer (1795-1858). Now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.

Dante and Virgil. A picture by Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1799-1863), a celebrated French historical painter. This picture on its appearance in 1822 caused a great sensation. Dante's House. [Ital. Casa di Dante.] A well-known house in Florence, Italy, in the Via S. Martino, in which the poet was born in 1265.

Dante's Portrait. A fresco painting by Giotto di Bondone (1276– 1336) in the chapel of the Bargello, or palace of the Podestà, in Florence, Italy. After having been long hidden from view by a covering of whitewash, it was brought to light in 1840 through the exertions of three gentlemen, Mr. Richard Henry Wilde, an American, Mr. Seymour Kirkup, an Englishman, and Signor G. Aubrey Bezzi, an Italian. This is the only likeness of Dante known to have been made during his life, and is therefore regarded of the greatest value. The eye of the beautiful profile was wanting, and in its place a hole an inch deep, doubtless caused by a nail which had been driven into the plastering. Giot

to's portrait of Dante has been made familiar to the public by excellent reproductions.

"After all commentaries, the Book itself is mainly what we know of him. The Book;- and one might add that Portrait commonly attributed to Giotto, which, looking on it, you cannot help inclining to think genuine, whoever did it. To me it is a most touching face; perhaps, of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, painted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it; the deathless sorrow and pain, the known victory which is also deathless; significant of the whole history of Dante! I think it is the mournfullest face that ever was painted from reality; an altogether tragic, heart-affecting face." Carlyle.

-We salute thee [Dante] who art

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On that ancient seat, The seat of stone that runs along the wall, Would Dante sit conversing. Rogers.

Dark and frowning piles of mediæval structure; a majestic dome, the prototype of St. Peter's; basilicas which enshrine the ashes of some of the mightiest of the dead; the stone where Dante stood to gaze on the campanile. Edward Everett. Dante's Tomb. A small circular structure in Ravenna, Italy, underneath which the bones of the poet rest. Dante degli Alighieri died in 1321.

I pass each day where Dante's bones are laid:

A little cupola, more neat than solemn, Protects his dust. Byron

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Darius and Alexander.

See BATTLE OF DARIUS AND ALEXANDER and FAMILY OF DARIUS BEFORE ALEXANDER.

Darnaway Castle. The seat of the Earl of Moray, near Forres, in Scotland.

Dartmoor Prison. A noted place

of confinement for prisoners of war, situated in that district of England known as Dartmoor, in the southern part of the county of Devon. Here, during the war between England and the United States, in 1812, many American prisoners were confined.

Wild Dartmoor! thou that midst thy mountains rude

Hast robed thyself with haughty solitude.

"Twas then the captives of Britannia's war
Here for their lovely southern climes afar
In bondage pined.
Felicia Hemans.

Dartmouth College. An institu-
tion of learning in Hanover, N.H.,
originally founded in 1770 as a
school for missionaries.
Datchet Mead. A patch of land
near the village of the same name
in England, immortalized by
his
Shakespeare in
Merry
Wives of Windsor," in connec-
tion with the adventures of Sir
John Falstaff.

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Daughter of Titian. A picture,

bearing this name, by Titian (1477-1576), representing a beau

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Davenant's Theatre. A theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, opened in 1662. The actors were styled the "Duke of York's company of comedians."

David. A gigantic marble statue by Michael Angelo (1475-1564), which formerly stood in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy, but has now been removed to the Accademia delle Belle Arti.

"The erection of this David was like an occurrence in nature from which people are accustomed to reckon. We find events dated so many years after the erection of the Giant. It was mentioned in records in which there was not a line besides respecting art."

Grimm, Trans.

"As soon as the statue was set upon its pedestal the Gonfaloniere Pier Soderini came to see it, and, after expressing his great admiration for the work, suggested that the nose seemed to him too large; hearing this, Michael Angelo gravely mounted on a ladder, and after pretending to work for a few minutes, during which he constantly let fall some of the marble-dust he had taken up in his pocket, turned with a questioning, and doubtless a slightly sarcastic, expression in his face to the critic, who responded, Bravo! bravo! Perkins. you have given it life.'"

David. See ZUCCONE, LO. David and Bathsheba. A picture by the Swiss painter, Nicolas Manuel, surnamed Deutsch (14841531). In the museum at Basle, Switzerland.

David and Goliath. A picture by Daniele da Volterra (1509-1566), the Italian painter, the pupil of Michael Angelo. It was, for a long time, considered to be the

work of the latter. It is a double picture, representing David and Goliath in two different points of view on each side of a tablet of slate. Now in the Louvre, at Paris.

David's Well. A deep rock-cis

tern in the neighborhood of Bethlehem, Palestine, traditionally identified with the Well of David, the water of which the king coveted when hiding in the cave of Adullam. (1 Chron. xi. 15–19.) Davidson Fountain. A magnificent fountain in Cincinnati, O. It is of bronze, cast in Munich, and presented to the city by Tyler Davidson.

Day, The. [Ital. Il Giorno.] One of four colossal figures by Michael Angelo Buonarotti (1475-1564). In the Church of S. Lorenzo, Florence, Italy.

"They have received the names of Day and Night, Dawn and Twilight; but the subjective instinct of the mas ter urged him here too far outside the pale of human sympathy for any terms, however vague, to define his intention." Eastlake.

(What word says God?) The sculptor's Night and Day,

And Dawn and Twilight, wait in marble

scorn,

Like dogs couched on a dunghill, on the clay

From whence the Medicean stamp's outworn. Mrs. Browning. 2. A celebrated bas-relief by Albert Bertel Thorwaldsen (17701844), the Danish sculptor. It is well known through numerous reproductions. The companion piece is entitled The Night. Day, The. [Il Giorno.] See ST. JEROME.

De Soto discovering the Mississippi. A picture in one of the panels of the rotunda in the Capitol of Washington, representing the arrival of Fernando de Soto (1500?-1542), the Spanish explorer, upon the banks of the great river. This work was executed, under commission from Congress, by W. H. Powells, who received $12,000 for painting it. Previous to the engagement of Mr. Powells another artist, Henry Inman, had

been commissioned to fill the vacant panel; but he died before beginning his work. This painting has been severely criticised, and pronounced "a plagiarized patchwork of generalities, absurd and incongruous, badly drawn, gaudily colored, and as destitute of historic value as an act of Congress is of poetic feeling." The picture has become very familiar to the general public from its reproduction as an engraving, upon the back of the ten-dollar notes of the national currency.

Dead Man Revived. A picture by Washington Allston (1779– 1843), the American painter. It "took the prize of 200 guineas at the British Institution." Dearborn Street. A well-known and prominent street in Chicago, Ill. Dearborn, Fort. See FORT DEAR

BORN.

Death. See DANCE OF DEATH; KNIGHT, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL; SHADOW OF DEATH; and TRIUMPH OF DEATH.

Death of Ananias. One of the famous cartoons by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), from which the tapestries in the Vatican, at Rome, were executed.

Death of Julius Cæsar. A picture by Jean L. Gérôme (b. 1824), the French painter. In the Corcoran Gallery at Washington.

Death of Montgomery. A wellknown historical picture by John Trumbull (1756–1843). In the Wadsworth Athenæum, Hartford, Conn.

"Not surpassed by any similar works in the last century, and thus far stand alone in American historical painting." Harper's Magazine. Death of Queen Elizabeth.

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picture by Paul Delaroche (17971856), the celebrated French historical painter.

Death of St. Francis. A fresco picture by Giotto di Bondone (1276-1336). In the Church of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy.

Death of the Duke of Guise. An | Décadence de Rome. [Decline of

admired picture by Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), the eminent French painter.

Death of the Virgin. A picture by Jan Shoreel (1495-1562), the Dutch painter, "remarkable for its intense reality and splendor of color, and one of the great ornaments of the Boisserée Gallery." At Munich, Bavaria. There is an excellent and wellknown lithograph of this picture. Death of the Virgin. A celebrated picture by Caravaggio (1569-1609), formerly in the possession of Charles I. of England, and which has often been engraved. Now in the Louvre,

Paris.

Death of the Virgin. A picture by Martin Schöngauer, commonly called Martin Schön (b. 1420 ?), a German painter, supposed to be his earliest work. It is now in the National Gallery, London. Death of Warren. An historical picture by John Trumbull (1756– 1843), the American painter. In the Wadsworth Athenæum, Hartfort, Conn.

Death of Webster. A painting by Joseph Ames (1816-1872), an American painter, of which there is an engraving. Death of Wolfe. A picture by Benjamin West (1738-1820). In the Grosvenor Gallery, London.

"Just before he [Lord Nelson] went to sea for the last time, . . . he expressed his regret that he had not acquired some taste for art. 'But,' said he, turning to West, there is one picture whose power I do feel. I never pass a paint-shop where your Death of Wolfe is in the window without being stopped by it.'. . . But, my lord [said Mr. West], I fear your intrepidity will furnish me such another scene; and, if it should, I shall certainly avail myself of it.' Will you?' said Nelson, then I hope that I shall die in the next battle." He sailed a few days after, and the result was on the canvas before Ticknor's Letters.

us.

Death on the Pale Horse. A picture by Benjamin West (17381820).

Rome.] A noted picture by Horace Vernet (1789-1863). In the palace of the Luxembourg, Paris.

"In this picture is a most grand and melancholy moral lesson. The classical forms are evidently not introduced because they are classic, but in subservience to the expression of the moral. Nothing could be more exqui site than the introduction of the busts of the departed heroes of the old republic, looking down from their pedestals on the scene of debauchery below. It is a noble picture, which I wish was hung up in the Capitol of our nation to teach our haughty people that as pride, and fulness of bread, and laxness of principle, brought down the old repub. lics, so also ours may fall." Beecher. Decadence of the Romans. A well-known picture by Thomas Couture (b. 1815). In the Luxembourg, Paris.

Declaration of Independence. A large picture by John Trumbull (1756-1843), executed under commission from Congress for the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. The picture is well known by engravings. Decree of Canopus.

OF SAN.

See STONE

Deer of Chillingham. See WILD DEER OF CHILLINGHAM.

Deer Pass. A picture by Sir Edwin Landseer (1803-1873). Defence, The.

An armor-plated ship of the British navy, launched April 24, 1861.

Deir, El. [The Convent.] A rock monument well preserved, in Petra, Arabia, being a huge monolith hewn out of the side of a cliff, and facing Mount Hor. It is of an order neither Greek nor Roman, but with something like a Doric frieze over a Corinthian capital.

"The façade is nearly double the size of the Khuzneh, being 150 feet in length, by about the same in extreme height, and is in admirable preservation. Some idea may be formed of its massive proportions by the measurement of its details. The lower columns are seven feet in diameter, and over 50 in height, almost rivalling those of the great temple at Bâ'albek; the interior

is one vast hall, perfectly plain. The whole aspect of this singular and beautiful edifice is undoubtedly that of a heathen temple." Murray's Handbook.

Deligny. The celebrated Imperial Swimming School, so called from the name of its director, and situated on the Quai d'Orsay, Paris.

For instance, once on the boulevard a friend tapped me on the shoulder,. when after taking a plunge at Deligny's, I came to the surface of the water blowing like a porpoise. Taine, Trans.

Delilah.

See SAMSON AND DELI

LAH. Deliverance of St. Peter. A fresco by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520), representing the deliverance of the apostle from prison. "Peter sits asleep between his guards, his chained hands still clasped in prayer. The angel is about to strike him on the side to wake him. On the right the angel leads him through the guards who are sleeping on the steps. In both these representations,

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the figures are illuminated by the light proceeding from the angel. On the left, the guards are roused, and seem staggering half asleep this group receives its light from the moon and from torches. This fresco is celebrated for the picturesque effect of these lights. The subject is supposed to contain an allusion to the captivity of Leo X., who had been liberated only the year preceding his elevation to the pontificate.' This picture is in the Stanza of the Heliodorus, in the Vatican, Rome.

Déliverande, La. A small Norman chapel in the neighborhood of Caen, France. It contains a shrine of the Virgin to which for 800 years the Norman sailors and peasantry have resorted. The image owes its reputation for sanctity to the miracles alleged to have been wrought by it in behalf of sailors.

Delivering the Keys to St. Peter. A well-known wall-painting by Pietro Perugino (1446-1524). In the Sistine Chapel, Rome. It is considered one of his best works.

Della Crusca. [Academy of the Sieve.] A celebrated literary association in Florence, Italy, founded by Cosimo I. for the purpose of purifying and refining the Italian language and style. It is still in existence, and continues to hold meetings. The name Della Crusca is better known, probably, to English readers, as a designation applied to a class of sentimental writers in Englard during the last century, distinguished by their affected style of expression.

Though Crusca's bards no more our journals fill,

Some stragglers skirmish round the columns still. Byron. Delmonico's. A noted restaurant on Fifth Avenue, New York. Delphic Sibyl. One of the frescos of Michael Angelo (1475-1564). In the Sistine Chapel, Rome. Deluge, The. One of the frescos of Michael Angelo (1475-1564). In the Sistine Chapel, Rome. Deluge in Phrygia. A picture by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Now in the gallery of Vienna, Austria.

Democritus. A picture by Salvator Rosa (1615-1673). In the Grosvenor Gallery.

Dendara, or Denderah. See TEMPLE OF DENDERAH and ZODIAC OF DENDERAH.

Denis. See PORTE ST. DENIS; ST. DENIS; and ST. DENIS, RUE.

Denis du Marais. See ST. SACRÉ

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