Italian, 19th century, male.
Born 1836, in Naples; died 1868, in Florence.
Painter. Genre scenes, portraits, church interiors, architectural views, landscapes, seascapes.
Macchiaioli Group.
Giuseppe Abbati was one of the interesting figures of the new Italian School. He trained under his father Vincenzo Abatti, a Neapolitan painter. He then went to work at the school of fine arts in Venice. In ...
Flemish, 16th century, male.
Active in Amsterdam in 1553.
Died 1575.
Painter, draughtsman. Architectural views, church interiors.
Flemish School.
Hendrick Aerts painted and decorated church interiors, one of which was engraved by J. Londerseel.
London, 1 Dec 1978: Interior of an Imaginary Cathedral during a Procession...
Italian, 16th century, male.
Active from 1511 to 1540.
Born in Sassoferrato (Ancona); died, in Cupramontana (Ancona).
Painter, sculptor, architect. Religious subjects.
Many of Pietro Paolo Agabiti's paintings decorate the churches of his native town. Santa Maria del Piano has a Virgin with St Catherine and St John the Baptist...
German, 19th century, male.
Born 1807, in Munich; died December 1870.
Painter, designer (stained glass), draughtsman. Figures, church interiors, architectural views.
He first studied architecture at the academy in Munich. His designs for ornamentation enabled him to get a job as a designer at the Nymphenburg royal porcelain works. Ainmiller was, however, not to be confined to such secondary employment. His aptitude for glass painting soon manifested itself in experiments, then in more substantial works that brought his talent to the fore. Ainmiller's stained glass can be seen in cathedrals in Regensburg, Speyer, Cologne and St Paul's in London. Geissler engraved ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 18 February 1912, in Baku.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, engraver, decorative designer. Religious subjects, figures, nudes, scenes with figures, landscapes, seascapes, architectural views, still-lifes, animals. Designs for tapestries, designs for mosaics, murals, church decoration.
A self-taught artist of Armenian origin, George Akopian went to France in ...
Italian, 17th century, male.
Born 1632, in Bologna; died 9 February 1677, in Bologna.
Painter, fresco artist. Religious subjects, architectural views.
Studied initially under Domenico Santi, then under Agostino Mitelli, whose daughter he married. He painted historical subjects, but his reputation rests more securely on his frescoes and architectural paintings. The church of S Petronio in Bologna houses his ...
German, 16th century, male.
Born 1502, in Paderborn (Westphalia); died c. 1558, in Soest.
Painter, designer of ornamental architectural features, engraver. Religious subjects, portraits.
Some biographers cite Heinrich Aldegrever's birthplace as the town of Paderborn, Germany, where his parents lived, while others claim it as Soest. He certainly lived in Soest after having completed his studies. In his study of the 'Little Masters' (so called because they engraved mostly small plates), Albert Rosemberg disputes that he studied under Dürer. Rosemburg even claims that he had never been to Nuremberg, despite van Melder's confirmation that Aldegrever worked at the high altar of a church in the town. It is indisputable, however, that Dürer strongly influenced him. Other artists who influenced him are Barthel Beham and Georg Pencz....
French, 18th century, male.
Born 1679, in Paris; died February 1748, in Paris.
Painter. Religious subjects, landscapes, architectural views.
Gabriel's father Étienne was his only teacher, passing on both his good and bad qualities. He exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1737 to 1747...
Spanish, 19th century, male.
Born 19th century, in Barcelona.
Painter, draughtsman. Figures, architectural views, architectural interiors, church interiors.
Alsamore studied at the school of art in his native city and began exhibiting his work in 1850. At that year's Barcelona exhibition his Panoramic View was among the prizewinners. He also participated in the national art exhibition in Madrid in ...
German, 16th century, male.
Born c. 1480, in Altdorf, in Regensburg according to some sources; died 1538, in Regensburg.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver, draughtsman, architect. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, hunting scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures.
Danube School.
Albrecht Altdorfer could be considered as important an artist as Dürer. He probably acquired basic artistic skills while working with his father Ulbrich, who is known to have became a burgher of Regensburg in 1478. Albrecht is also believed to have studied the art of miniature painting. Almost all of his artistic activity took place in Regensburg where he worked from 1508 in various official capacities, playing an active role in the public life of the town. In 1526 he was nominated as the town's architect and directed building works on the ramparts and slaughterhouses. He also became a member of the town council....
called Menichino del Brizio
Italian, 17th century, male.
Born c. 1600, in Bologna; died after 1678.
Painter, decorative designer, fresco artist, engraver. Religious subjects, architectural views, perspectives, landscapes. Church decoration.
Studied initially under Bernardino Baldi, then Calvaert, following whose death in 1619 Ambrogi spent years studying with Francesco Brizio (from whom he takes his sobriquet Menichino del Brizio). Ambrogi quickly made a reputation for himself as a painter of frescoes and oils, not least in his depiction of landscape, architecture and perspective. The Uffizi in Florence houses two of his religious landscapes; his Guardian Angel is on show at S Giacomo Maggiore, and his St Francis in a Radiance of Angels can be seen at the church of the Annunziata. Ambrogi painted frescoes for the Paleotti and Dentone palaces and also decorated several private houses and public monuments. His Coronation of the Virgin is on view at the church of S Maria della Vita. In ...
Italian, 17th century, male.
Active in Florence.
Painter, fresco artist. Perspectives. Church decoration.
Anderlini took architecture as a point of departure for his fresco work. Examples are preserved in Florence in the Episcopal Palace, in the church of S Giuseppe, and in the Benedictine Abbey....
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1941, in Aricò.
Sculptor, painter, glassmaker. Religious subjects, figures, animals.
Gianni Aricò received a diploma in architecture from Venice University in 1971. In 1974 he set up his sculpture studio in the de-consecrated church of S Andrea della Zirada in Venice....
German, 19th century, male.
Born 1814, in Strasbourg.
Painter. Architectural views, church interiors.
A pupil of the academy of fine arts in Düsseldorf around 1842, Friedrich Arnold did several paintings including a View of the interior of Xanthi Cathedral.
Astrology is the art of predicting events on earth as well as human character and disposition from the movements of the planets and fixed stars. Medieval astrology encompassed both general concepts of celestial influence, and the technical art of making predictions with horoscopes, symbolic maps of the heavens at particular moments and places constructed from astronomical information. The scientific foundations of the art were developed in ancient Greece, largely lost in early medieval Europe and recovered by the Latin West from Arabic sources in the 12th and 13th centuries. Late medieval astrological images were successfully Christianized and were adapted to particular contexts, acquired local meanings and changed over time.
Astrology developed into a scientific branch of learning in ancient Greece, but because of the opposition of the Church Fathers it was transmitted to early medieval Europe in only fragmentary form in technically unsophisticated textbooks and popular divinatory genres. Literary and scientific texts provided more general ideas about the nature and attributes of the planets which were influential on later iconography. The first significant astrological images appear in 11th-century illustrated astronomical texts (e.g. London, BL, Cotton MS. Tiberius BV), which were acquired and produced by monasteries to aid with time-keeping and the construction of the Christian calendar....
Dutch, 17th century, male.
Born c. 1604; died, in Amsterdam, in 1663 according to Dr Bredius.
Painter. Religious subjects, architectural views, church interiors.
Pommersfelden: Church Interior
St Petersburg (Hermitage): Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Stockholm (Hammer Collection): Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery...
Belgian, 19th century, male.
Born 24 November 1793, in Evergem, near Ghent; died 24 April 1855, in Ghent.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman. Historical subjects, portraits, genre scenes, architectural views, church interiors.
Angelus de Baets was the son of Joannes de Baets and Johanna Judoca Vereecke; he studied at the Ghent academy and later became a teacher there. He exhibited frequently in Ghent ...
British, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1754, in Norwich, baptised 5 June 1754; died 21 or 6 December 1828, in Hatfield, in very reduced circumstances.
Engraver (etching and stippling), illustrator, printmaker, draughtsman. Portraits, architecture, mythology, religious subjects.
The son of John Baldrey the Elder, John Baldrey the Younger entered the Royal Academy School to study engraving in ...
Chilean, 20th century, male.
Born 1927, in Paris.
Painter.
Barreda Fabres studied architecture at the Catholic university in Santiago and taught history of art in the architecture faculty from 1950 to 1955. He used a realist technique to paint constructions that belong to the world of the uncanny and the surreal. He took part in exhibitions in North America, Latin America and Europe and received many awards....
[Porta, Baccio della]
(b Florence, March 28, 1472; d Florence, Oct 31, 1517).
Italian painter and draughtsman. Vasari and later historians agree that Fra Bartolommeo was an essential force in the formation and growth of the High Renaissance. He was the first painter in Florence to understand Leonardo da Vinci’s painterly and compositional procedures. Later he created a synthesis between Leonardo’s tonal painting and Venetian luminosity of colour. Equally important were his inventions for depicting divinity as a supernatural force, and his type of sacra conversazione in which the saints are made to witness and react to a biblical event occurring before their eyes, rather than standing in devout contemplation, as was conventional before. His drawings, too, are exceptional both for their abundance and for their level of inventiveness. Many artists came under his influence: Albertinelli, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Titian, Correggio, Beccafumi, Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino.
Fra Bartolommeo was the son of Paolo, a muleteer and carter. After 1478 he lived in a modest family house outside the Porta S Pier Gattolini in Florence and consequently was dubbed Baccio (a Tuscan diminutive for Bartolommeo) della Porta. In ...
