Crossword-Solution: BARBIERI 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The Harlequin Cecchini composed the most ancient treatise on this subject, and was ennobled by the Emperor Matthias; and Nicholas Barbieri, for his excellent acting called the _Beltrame_, a Milanese simpleton, in his treatise on comedy, tell us that he was honoured by the conversation of Louis XIII.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri got his nickname of Il Guercino, or the 'Squintling,' from an accident which distorted his right eye in babyhood.

Thus, Squint Eye, (_Guercino_,) Dirty Tom, (_Masaccio_,) The Little Dyer, (_Tintoretto_,) Great George, (_Giorgione_,) The Garland-Maker, (_Ghirlandaio_,) Luke of the Madder, (_Luca della Robbia_,) The Little Spaniard, (_Spagnoletto_,) and The Tailor's Son, (_Del Sarto_,) would scarcely be known under their real names of Barbieri, Tommaso, Guido, Robusti, Barbarelli, Corradi, Ribera, and Vannuchi.

North from the baptistery, at the end of the Via de Martelli, and next the Palazzo Riccardi (see page 275), is the Church of San Giovannino, rebuilt in the 16th cent., with frescoes representing scenes in the life of Christ, by Passignano, Barbieri, Bronzino, Tito, Corradi, and Ligozzi.

BARBIERI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO (otherwise called GUERCINO, from his squinting), (1591-1666), Italian historical painter, was born at Cento, a village not far from Bologna.