PROCACCINI, a family of eminent Italian artists, of whom ERCOLE PROCACCINI was the father. He was born at Bologna in 1720, and practised his profession at Milan. Laborious, careful, and exact, he did not fail to achieve success. His pictures, in spite of a tameness of colouring and an over-minuteness of detail, were notable for their graceful and correct figures, and their freedom from slovenly mannerisms. His mode of teaching was especially painstaking and excellent. Some of the most distinguished artists of the Milanese school issued from his academy. Ercole Procaccini was still living in 1591. His principal works are in the churches of Bologna.