Antonia, 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 1560. 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

BADEN, formerly a margravate, now a grand duchy in Germany. It is bounded by Hesse Darmstadt and Bavaria on the north; by Wurtemburg, on the east; by Switzerland, on the south; and by the Rhine, which divides it from Alsace, on the west. It is about 170 miles in length, from north to south; but not above 30 or 40 in breadth; and contained, in 1816, 5800 square English miles, with 1,001,700 inhabitants. It was erected into a duchy in 1806, and was subsequently divided into ten circles. The French code was introduced in the time of Bonaparte, and is still in force, with some modifications. The public revenue of the duchy is estimated at 550,000l. sterling. The country is generally fertile, producing corn and wine. About two-thirds of the people are Lutherans, the other third are Calvinists. In 1819 the grand duke gave his subjects a representative constitution. The principal rivers are the Rhine, Neckar, Ems, and Wirms. Carlsruhe is the chief town, and seat of the government.

BADEN, the chief city of the margravate, contains 2000 inhabitants, and has a few manufactures of pottery, leather, soap, &c. The town is seated among hills, on rocky and uneven ground, which renders the streets inconvenient and crooked. It is famous for its baths, the springs of which are said to be above 300. Some of them are hot, and accounted to be very good in nervous diseases. They partake of salt, alum, and sulphur. E. Long. 8. 15. N. Lat. 48. 50.

BADEN, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of Austria, seated on the Little Suechat, is a neat little walled town, standing in a plain not far from a ridge of hills which run out from the mountain Cetius. It is much frequented by the people of Vienna, and the neighbouring parts, on account of its baths. The springs supply two convenient baths within the town, five without the walls, and one beyond the river. They are good for distempers of the head, the gout, dropsy, and most chronic diseases. E. Long. 16. 10. N. Lat. 48. 0.

BADENOCH, the most easterly part of Inverness-shire, in Scotland, extending about 33 miles in length from east to west, and 27 from north-east to south-west where broadest. It has no considerable town, and is very barren and hilly, but abounds with deer, and other kinds of game. BAE

BADIS, a fortress of Livonia, subject to Russia. E. Long. 23. 10. N. Lat. 59. 15.