an eminent Italian painter, born of poor parents in Tuscany, about the year 1500. He was placed apprentice with a grocer in Florence, and got some instructions from the painters to whom he was sent with colours and pencils; but a painter named Vaga taking him to Rome, he was called Del Vaga, from living with him, his real name being Buonaccorsi. He studied anatomy with the sciences necessary for his profession; and had somewhat of everything that was good in his compositions. After Raphael's death, he joined with Julio Romano and Francisco Penni to finish the works in the Vatican which were left imperfect by their common matter; and to confirm their friendship, married Penni's sister. He gained the highest reputation by his performances in the palace of prince Doria at Genoa: but the multiplicity of his business and the vivacity of his imagination, drained his spirits in the flower of his age; for he died in the year 1547.