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BARTOLOMMEO BAGNACAVALLO (1484-1542)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 202 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAGNACAVALLO (1484-1542)  , See also:Italian painter, His real name was RAMENGHI, but he received the cognomen See also:Bagnacavallo from the little See also:village where he was See also:born . He studied first under See also:Francia, and then proceeded to See also:Rome, where he became a See also:pupil of See also:Raphael . While studying under him he worked along with many others at the decoration of the See also:gallery in the Vatican, though it is not known what portions are his See also:work . On his return to See also:Bologna he quickly took the leading See also:place as an artist, and to him were due the See also:great improvements in the See also:general See also:style of what has been called the Bolognese school . His See also:works were considered to be inferior in point of See also:design to some other productions of the school of Raphael, but they were distinguished by See also:rich colouring and graceful delineation . They were highly esteemed by Guido Reni and the Carracci, who studied them carefully and in some points imitated them . The best specimens of Bagnacavallo's works, the " Dispute of St See also:Augustine," and a " Madonna and See also:Child, are at Bologna . BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE, a See also:town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of Hautes-See also:Pyrenees, 13 M . S.S.E. of See also:Tarbes on a See also:branch See also:line of the See also:Southern railway . Pop . (1906) 6661 . It is beautifully situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Adour, at the See also:northern end of the valley of See also:Campan, and the vicinity abounds in picturesque See also:mountain scenery .

The town is remarkably neat and clean and many of the houses are built or ornamented with See also:

marble . It is one of the See also:principal watering-places in France, and has some fifty See also:mineral springs, characterized chiefly by the presence of sulphate of See also:lime or See also:iron . Their temperature ranges approximately from 59° to 122° Fahr., and they are efficacious in cases of See also:rheumatism, See also:nervous affections, indigestion and other maladies . The See also:season begins in May and terminates about the end of See also:October, during which See also:time the See also:population is more than doubled . The See also:Promenade See also:des Coustous is the centre of the See also:life of Bagneres . See also:Close by stands the See also:church of St See also:Vincent of the 14th and 15th centuries . The old See also:quarter of the town, in which there are several old houses, contains a graceful octagonal See also:tower of the 15th See also:century, the remains of a Jacobin monastery . The Neothermes, occupying See also:part of the See also:casino, and the Thermes (dating from 1824), which has a See also:good library, are the principal bathing-establishments; both are town See also:property . The other See also:chief buildings include the Carmelite church, remains of the old church of St See also:Jean, a museum and the town-See also:hall . Bagneres has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, and a communal See also:college . The manufacture of barege, a See also:light fabric of See also:silk and See also:wool, and the See also:weaving and See also:knitting of woollen goods, See also:wood-turning and the working of marble found in the neighbourhood and imported from elsewhere, are among the See also:industries, and there are also See also:slate quarries . Eagneres was much frequented by the See also:Romans, under whom it was known as Vicus Aquensis, but afterwards lost its renown .

It begins to appear again in See also:

history in the 12th century when Centulle III., See also:count of Bigorre, granted it a liberal See also:charter . The See also:baths See also:rose into permanent importance in the 16th century, when they were visited by Jeanne d'See also:Albret, See also:mother of See also:Henry IV., and by many other distinguished persons . BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, a town of south-western France, in the department of Haute-See also:Garonne, 87 m . S.S.W. of See also:Toulouse, on a branch line of the Southern railway from Montrejeau . Pop . (1906) 3448 . The town is situated at the See also:foot of the central Pyrenees in a beautiful valley at the confluence of the One and the Pique . It is celebrated for its thermal springs and as a fashionable resort . Of the promenades the finest and most frequented are the Allees d'Etigny, an See also:avenue planted with lime-trees, at the southern extremity of which is the Thermes, or bathing-See also:establishment, one of the most See also:complete in existence . The springs, which number 48, vary in See also:composition, but are chiefly impregnated with sulphate of See also:sodium, and range in temperature from 62° to 150 . A large casino was opened in the town in 1877 . The See also:discovery of numerous See also:Roman remains attests the antiquity of the baths, which are identified with the Onesiorum Thermae of See also:Strabo .

Their revival in See also:

modern times See also:dates from the latter See also:half of the 18th century, and was due to See also:Antoine Megret d'Etigny, See also:intendant of See also:Auch .

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