ANTONIO, history and portrait painter, was born at Verona in 1480, and by great study and application acquired a more extensive knowledge of the true principles of painting than any of his predecessors. He was confessedly a most eminent artist; but he derived greater honour from having two such disciples as Paolo Veronese and Baptista Zelotti, than he did even from the excellence of his own compositions. He died in 1562. His colouring was admirably good; his carnations beautiful; and his portraits preserved the perfect resemblance of flesh and real life: nor had he any cause to envy the acknowledged merit BAE