Sr., a town of France, in the department of Isere, with a celebrated abbey. It is seated among the mountains, eight miles W.N.W. of St Marcellin. Pop. 2007.

ANTONELLO Da Messina, the first Italian painter who used oil colours. Having seen, in the palace of Alfonso I. of Naples, a picture of Jan Van Eyck in this style, he set out for Flanders, and obtained the secret from the painter of Bruges, with whom he remained until the death of Van Eyck in 1445. After that he returned to Messina for a time; but in 1450 set out for Venice, where he communicated the important Flemish secret to Domenico Veneziano. He then paid a long visit to Milan; but finally returned to Venice, where he died in 1493. He seems to have freely communicated the modes of painting in oil, especially in this latter period of his life, and had a salary from the state. He had a high reputation, and was the most illustrious artist in the first epoch of the Neapolitan school.—See Ridolfi Vitte de Pittori, Zanetti Pint. Venez., and Lanzi Storia Pittrica, tom. ii.