ing one
of the executioners the artist actually wrought himself into a passion,
using threatening words and actions, and that Annibale Caracci,
surprising him at that moment, embraced him, exclaiming with joy,
'To-day, my dear Domenichino, thou art teaching me.' So novel, and at
the same time so natural, it appeared to him that the artist, like the
orator, should feel within himself all that he is representing to
others." Domenichino is esteemed the most distinguished disciple of the
Caracci, or second only to Guido Reni. Algarotti preferred him to the
greatest masters; and Nicolas Poussin considered the painter of the
"Communion of St Jerome" to be the first after Raphael. His pictures of
"Adam and Eve," and the "Martyrdom of St Agnes," in the Gallery of
Bologna, are amongst his leading works. Others of superior interest are
his first known picture, a fresco of the "Death of Adonis," in the
Loggia of the Giardino Farnese, Rome; the "Martyrdom of St Sebastian,"
in Santa Maria degli Angeli; the "Four Evangelists," in Sant' Andrea
della Valle; "Diana and her Nymphs," in the Borghese gallery; the
"Assumption of the Virgin," in Santa Maria di Trastevere; and frescoes
in the neighbouring abbey of Grotta Ferrata, lives of SS. Nilus and
Bartholomew. His portraits are also highly reputed. It is admitted that
in his compositions he often borrowed figures and arrangements from
previous painters. Domenichino was potent in fresco. He excelled also in
landscape painting. In that style (in which he was one of the earliest
practitioners) the natural elegance of his scenery, his trees, his
well-broken grounds, the character and expression of his figures, gained
him as much public admiration as any of his other performances.

See Bolognini, _Life of Domenichino_ (1839); C. Landon, _Works of
Domenichino, with a Memoir_ (1823). (W. M. R.)

DOMESDAY BOOK, or simply DOMESDAY, the record of the great survey of
England executed for William the Conqueror. We learn from the English
Chronicle that the scheme of this survey was discussed and determined
in the Christmas assembly of 1085, and from the colophon of Domesday
Book that the survey (_descriptio_) was completed in 1086. But Domesday
Book (_liber_) although compiled from the returns of that survey, must
be carefully distinguished from them; nor is it certain that it was
compiled in the year in which the survey was made. For the making of the
survey each county was visited by