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of the name of ' f ° ;' 'j^^^ ''^f ^-^ nius, fo that at the age 



'?f'::"JaS ok coals from the' fire for drawing figures 

 of four yars ne tooi ^^^^^ ^ ,j 



on the floor, ^"^ at \he^'S^;;,\\la„d under the inRruc- 

 portra,t °f -^g-^t' ftomme'd by his rapid progrefs. 

 V°" ^,. h nJfent bv the chancellor Segu,er to Italy, 

 In "^f ^\"''' 'T ',, boarding in the houle of the 

 v-here he continued 6 5 "'^' J^^^™ f^j ■„„ the works 



exaftly as to deccne loe received into the 



Gobehn manuf;aaory,fo. the tape >y ^^^__^ ^^^_ 



loagmgs, "'^^ "^ ".7 "•■;., .ug^cther under his direftion, 



ZL promotion of the fine arts u. Trance and to^e pe 



Sliar f .".>«--,f ,iTf^, t ^^r^c^pld ':tJ. 

 particular v,ew to kska^^^^ ,,d allegory, in the 



p-^,^al^f:Sk.V^;^-ev..^ 



nt 'ro"L ?:" " Sr'u. »"!."» ^ u™,, 



of him for his gallery Thus flattered ^.^ .^^ ^^^^^ 



;t^'\ircS;yo.„d.Les»„,ww.™^ 



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faidonhis departure, « that death «-a5 taking a great thorn 

 ou?of his foot;" an expreffion which indicated want of 

 becorninP fenfibility, and which occafioned the unfounded 

 reporTthat he had procured poifon to be admin.llered to hi, 



'"The diftinguidiing merits of Le Brun as a painter are 

 greatnefs of c'oncephon, good ordonnance -P-ff'-' -j 

 elevation : but he is cenfnred for too much of the l.encl 



flute a d ^ff^-a«'i-' « -^"» °f ^•^"'^>' '"i'" """:f ' 'oft 

 Sraperies, and deficiency of colouring. Am-g he rn^l 

 cllimable of his performances we may reckon the Bat te* 

 of Alexander," 'the merit of .whicl^^as been more confpi- 

 cuous by the excellent engravings of Girard Audran. the 

 ' Penitent Magdalen" mulh admired, the " Carrying of the 

 croi^ " the '■ Crucifixion," and " St. John in the lake of Pat- 

 n o "Hisdefignshave been copied by many cap.talengravo: 

 Td he hn^felf etched for his amufement fev.rul plates, m a 

 ibXtrvianifean^gthehandofthemalU 



which are the " Tour times of the day ' and an IntaU 



kneeling upon the crofs," from his own defigns 



As a writer, he is known for two works : one " Un 1 In 



fio™;," and another " On the Paffions," which latter 



Er fupjiied various models for drawing. D'ArgenvilU. 



Gen Dift. Pilkinoton. Strutt. „. , . , 



Brun, Pete. Le, a learnedecclefiafticalwnter, was born 



at Brignole, in Provence, in 1661, became a P™'^"' ; 

 or.tor?,andwasengagedfor ,3 yearsm giving ledures, at the 

 ? mina'; of St. Magloire, at Paris, on .he ^=';P.'">-'„'--- " 

 cils andecclefiallicalhiftory. In 169^ he publ fli.d ' Let- 

 ; to prove the illufion of Philofophers on the p.vining 

 R.,d." afterwards pubUOied under the tit e of Cutica 

 H llory of the Supeillitious Praftices which have fedtu:ed 

 th Vid.ar and embarralTed the Learned, with the Method 

 and P,iii^ip!es for difcriminating the uattirai from the fuper- 

 n tu-al Effeas," three vols i^mo. m which the author ad- 

 mits the reality of diabolical iUni ons in his attempt to give 

 Tnatural explanation of fraudulent deceptions. He alfi 

 wrote " An hiftorical and dodrinal Treatife on theatrical 

 Snrfticles" i^mo. in which he maintains their uiila*fn!- 

 ne'fst a Chviaian. At the requed of the Abbe Bignon, 

 he pubhflied an elaborate w.n-k on - Liturgies, m 4 volb. 

 8vo' the firft of which appeared in .716, and three others 

 i, i-,6 The opinions which he advanced on the confc- 

 cratio; of the mafs, involved him in a conlroverfy, during 

 the profecution of which his life was terminated by a difoi- 

 d r u, the breaft, in January, 17^9- ^s ^ "ter he wa 

 profound and methodical, with a clear and fimp! 1 yk • 

 and his piety was equal to his erudition. Nouv. Did. 



"'brun', or B.owNE, Cape, in G..^r./^J', lies in the 

 N N E point of the entrance into the giv-at road of i oulon, 

 on the coaft of France, in the Mediterranean. 



BRUNCA, La, a fea-port town on the weft co ft of 

 the ifland of Sicily, at the entrance of the gulf of Catama, 

 16 miles I'outh of Catania. 



BRUNDISI or Brx-tnbisium. See Brindisi. 

 BRUNELLA, in Botany. See Prunella. _ 



BRUNELLESCHI, Philip, in Dtograpby, an emment 

 Italian architea, was born at Florence in 137? ; and in early 

 life Iwving a tafte for mathematics and mechanics, and a de- 

 fi e o leanr fculpture, he became acquainted -''h D°"atelh, 

 a riilncr artilt in this department, and a^^^^Pf""^^ '"" ^° 

 p » ;,, nrder to furvev the monuments of architeauve and 

 f^Tp u'lr 1^ ^at ca -1. Here Bruncllefchi emph^yed his 

 whok t'me, with indefatigable affiduity, in making drawing 

 ^ nk no-meaRires of all the famous relics of antiquity; 

 SIS cl^^^u^ed a defign of eilablifl.ng hi, iame,.l,y 



