PROCACCINI, Camillo, the eldest son of the preceding, was born at Bologna in 1546. The course of training by which he was fitted for his profession was very thorough. In his father's school he was inured to patient and tasteful elaboration. Then repairing to Rome to complete his education for himself, he acquired higher qualifications. The contemplation of the great creations of Michael Angelo kindled his imagination. The study of the graceful heads of Parmigiano refined his taste. His brain became ready and fertile in inventing, and his hand became rapid and felicitous in executing. There was scarcely an artistic accomplishment, in fact, which he did not easily acquire. Camillo Procaccini thus attained to great eminence, and his name became well known in many cities. At Bologna, Ravenna, Pavia, and Genoa, he received as much employment as would have occupied two artists. At Reggio he painted "St. Rocco Dispensing the Sacrament to the Plague-stricken Victims" with so much excellence that Annibale Caracci was discouraged when he was commissioned to execute a companion picture to it. At Piacenza he finished a fresco of the "Coronation of the Virgin," which was only eclipsed by an adjacent work of his great rival above mentioned. Nor was his fame less at Milan, his fixed place of residence. At the time of his death in 1626 there were few artists who rivalled him in the estimation of his fellow-citizens.