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fucceffor of his patron ncaa to the fame office which he 
had held a his fathe Orlando continued at this court 
7 his death, wards of 70 years of 
is r 
“ Pic ae Orlandus a a cccreat orbem,”’ 
A ved to a confiderable age, and never feems to have 
checked the fertility of his genius by Lacie his al gia 
tions exceed in number even t ofe o Pale ftrin Ther 
; 3 with Latin, oo 
Cantiones quas tas vulgd tam antea editas, 
uam haGtenus nondum publicatas, a 2 ad 12 Voc., Mo 
nachii, 1604,’’ s. in folio uch efteemed. But in 
France, his popularity chiefly arofe from the great number 
of fongs by Ronfard and Clement Marot, which he - he 
mufic, and which were printed by Adrian le Roy, 
1576 to 1584. His compofitions were in hig oa i‘ 
England, during the reign of queen Elizabeth 
Two of Orlando di Laffo’s ara Ferdinand sad Rcdolph, 
were able muficians, and both in the fervice of Maximilian, 
er 
u 
as organift to ee rinc 
co a. their father’s cole. in 7 vols. folio, and publifhed 
t in a very fplendid and fumptuous manner, dedicating 
cet to their patron, the fovereign of Bavaria. The general 
reception, however, of thefe compofitions feems not to have 
equalled the expetations of the editors: other productions 
had taken ‘ig mer miees of the public ear and favour, It is, we 
or the revival of old mufic; too man 
fathionabe perfor: m to attempt doing 
juttice to the ie ons of former times, it is hardly pof- 
fible for them to fucceed; the accent, energy, and expref- 
fion are either loft in the execution, or foie icible to the 
hearers. There is, indeed, as little chance for a mufician 
of the prefent age to perform fuch produdtions in the manner 
of the times in which they were sgn ed, as to pronounce 
a foreign language as wel and if, againit all 
calculation, he fhould faced, this cae will ftill be an un- 
known pide to the pu 
We in 1772, Orlando's tomb in the Recollet’s 
een enet at Munich. On it are carved his own figure, 
with thofe of his wife, three fons, and eight daughters, 
kneeling by him; date 1595, with a long Latin epitaph. 
OR aneipne ie ed VAN, was ae at Bruffels about 
the year o ftudy painting, when 
very ae Gel ca the good poe to become a difciple 
of Raphael Sanzio. 
i Brabant, he was appointed tig 
painter to the governefs of the Netherlands, and w 
ployed for — ia eee by the emperor ris V.; bare 
confidered a ig soap of his tim 
_ The prince oF Naflau engaged him to pane “fixteen car- 
toons, as models for pela. which were intended for the 
decorations of his, palace at Breda. Each cartoon confifted 
of only two figures, a knight and a lady on horfeback, re- 
prefenting fome of the Naflau family. They were thought 
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worthy of a {cholar of meee and were alia copied 
by Jordaens in oil. in ae ee ag ge 
ICHARD VAN aff Is in 1652, 
the fon oF Peter Van Ory, an rindiffcrect landfeape painter, 
from — of courfe, Richard firft received the rudiments 
of his 
He “fornithed the world with a prodigious number of 
works, and is one of thofe who have contributed to puzzle 
the connoiffeurs, by having at different periods chofen dif- 
ferent mafters as his models, and made compofitions in their 
peculiar taftes of S . Dr seg Pietro da. Cortona, and 
frequently Nicolo » fuffer in waearee by having 
hee rlay’s la aes seibuted to them, which are never- 
e 
Oe, or a in yobs a fillet under 
the ovolo, or quarter-round of a capital. 
word is French, formed from the Latin orletum, or 
oa, of ord, a border or lift. 
; Nn it is at the top or bottom of the fhaft, it is called 
the cing: 
Palladio ‘alfo Sie orlo for the plinth of the bafes of co- 
— hte pede 
E, in Heralir ry, i 
] mi 
border (fee BorpER), of the fame than e as the efcutcheon, 
which doth not touch the extremities oF the fhield, the field 
being feen within and round it on both fides; fo that i it ap- 
pears like an efeutcheon voided. 
Its breadth is but half that of the bordure, which con- 
tains a fifth part of. the fhield; the orle only a tenth; add, 
that the orle is its own breadth diftant from the edge of the 
ield; whereas the bordure comes to the edge itfe 
heté is fometimes one orle, fometimes there are two, 
and fometimes three. hen there are three, or more, they 
take up the whole fhield. It is uate borne flory, or 
ae antl or like the trefure ; w 
m of the orle is the fame waite nt of the thield ; 
whence ie Geabes an inefcutcheon ; as reprefented in the 
Plate of Heraldr 
e ra of the orle may be ingrailed, indented, in- 
verted, hen any bearings, as martlets, trefoils, &c. 
are peed round an efcutcheon, ona field, they are termed, 
or faid to be, in orle. Somew a mention the number of 
an ndfon, they exprefs them- 
ecaufe martes trefoils, &c. .when 
placed in ole, are always eight er. 
LE A, in the Materia Medica, the name of the 
arnotto, or roucou, 
ORLEANOIS, in Geography, a province of France. 
before the revolution, bounded on the 
and Ifle de France, on the eaft b 
and 48° 4o! N, 
E og. being 33 
to e 
Orleans, its 8 capital. of | 
the capital, is 15 leagues long, an d from two to five broad. 
This province, together with sie Blaifois and Chartrain, is 
now divided into the three departments of Loire and Cher, 
the Loiret, and the Eure and Loire 
ORLEANS, Perer JoserH p DE, in Bio ography, was 
born at Bourges in 1641, of an ancient. family, in in the e pro 
4B2 vince 
