BECCAFUMI, DOMENICO DI PACE Italian painter, of the school of Siena, was the son of a peasant, Giacomo di Pace, who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Becca fumi, who adopted the boy and sent him to study painting in the city. Known afterwards as Domenico Beccafumi, or earlier as I1 Mecarino, he showed extraordinary industry and talent. He painted a vast number both of religious pieces for churches and of mythological decorations for private patrons. But the work by which he will be longest remembered is the pavement of the cathedral of Siena, on which he worked from 1517 to 1544, which had been begun 150 years before. He made very ingenious im provements in the technical processes employed, and laid down multitudinous scenes from the stories of Ahab and Elijah, of Melchisedec, of Abraham and of Moses. Beccafumi at one time or another essayed almost every branch of fine art. He made a triumphal arch and an immense mechanical horse for the proces sion of the emperor Charles V. on his entry into Siena.