PALMA, GIACOPO, surnamed "the Old," an eminent Italian painter, was born near Bergamo about the beginning of the sixteenth century. He was a patient and laborious artist, and studied to catch the grace of Titian, and the clear expression and lively colouring of Giorgione. Accordingly, an elaborate refinement and a harmony of tints became his characteristic excellencies. Among other great pictures, he painted "Saint Barbara" for the church of Santa Maria Formosa at Venice, and a "Madonna" for San Stefano di Vicenza. He is also the supposed artist of a portrait which has been warmly eulogized by Vasari as "a performance of astonishing perfection and singular beauty." His death took place at Venice in the forty-eighth year of his age. Several pictures ascribed to Palma, including some that are not well authenticated, are found in the galleries of Dresden, Vicenza, Venice, Vienna, and other European towns.