BAGNACAVALLO, BARTOLOMMEO Italian painter. His real name was RAMENGHI, but he received the cognomen Bagnacavallo from the little village where he was born. He studied under Francia, and then in Rome as a pupil. of Raphael for whom he worked, with others, at the decoration of the gallery in the Vatican. His work, considered to be inferior in point of design to some other productions of the school of Raphael, is distinguished by rich colouring and graceful drawing. The best specimens of it, the "Dispute of St. Augustine" and a "Madonna and Child," are at Bologna.
town, S.W. France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Hautes Pyrenees, 13m. S.S.E. of Tarbes on a branch of the Southern Railway. Pop. It is situated on the left bank of the Adour, at a height of 1,825ft. Bagneres (Vitus Aquensis) was much frequented by the Romans, but afterwards lost its renown. In the 12th century Centulle III., count of Bigorre, granted it a liberal charter. The baths rose into permanent importance in the 16th century, when they were visited by many distinguished persons. It remains one of the principal health resorts of France and is frequented as an excursion centre both in summer and in winter. The variety in the temperature and chemical composition of the waters attracts many patients in the season (July-September) . The Promenade des Coustous is the centre of the life of Bagneres. Close by stands the church of St. Vincent (14th and i 5th centuries). The old quarter of the town has several old houses and an octagonal tower (15th century) the remains of a Dominican monastery. The Neother mes, occupying part of the casino, and the Thermes (1824), which has a good library, are the principal bathing establishments. Some cloister arches and a doorway remain of the old church of St. Jean. Bagneres has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, and a communal college. Barege, a light fabric of silk and wool, and woollen goods are produced; wood-turning is practised, and there are important marble and slate quarries.
town, south France, in the de partment of Haute-Garonne, 87m. S.S.W. of Toulouse, on a branch line of the Southern railway from Montrejeau. Pop. (1931) 3,842. The town, perhaps the most fashionable of Pyre nean resorts, is situated at the foot of the central Pyrenees at the confluence of the One and the Pique. In the Allees d'Etigny, an avenue planted with lime-trees, is the Thermes, or bathing establishment. The thermal springs are chiefly impregnated with sulphate of sodium, and range widely in temperature. Numerous Roman remains attest the antiquity of the baths, probably the Onesiorum Thermae of Strabo; they were revived in the late 18th century.