BARTOLOMMEO

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

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

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

It begins to appear again in

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

Their revival in

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