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...
Italian, 15th century, male.
Born 1418, in Florence; died before 1498, in Perugia.
Sculptor, architect. Religious subjects.
Florentine School, Perugian School.
The son of the weaver Antonio di Duccio, Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio produced works in marble and terracotta of the Della Robbia type. His earliest known works are four low reliefs in Modena Cathedral. While living in Florence in ...
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.
Active in Vicenza and in Venice, during the first half of the 17th century.
Sculptor. Religious subjects. Statues.
Brother of Girolamo Albanese. Worked on various architectural projects and, in particular, produced five marble statues that adorn the façade of S Giorgio Maggiore in Venice....
Italian, 17th – 18th century, male.
Sculptor, founder, designer of ornamental architectural features. Religious subjects.
London, 3 May 1977: Baptismal Fonts (bronze, h. 14¼ ins/36.5 cm, diam. 17 ins/43.2 cm) GBP 12,000
Italian, 13th century, male.
Active in Modena.
Sculptor. Religious subjects.
The son of Anselme and the nephew of Arrigo, Alberto da Campione was employed as an architect in the building of Modena Cathedral until after 1244.
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...
Italian, 17th century, male.
Active in Milan.
Sculptor, architect.
He worked in Padua and sculpted the angels on the Altar of Christ in the church of S Francesco. Together with his brother Tommaso, he assumed responsibility for decorating the three outside faces of the right-hand column of the Cappella del Santo in the church of S Antonio in Padua....
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....
(Rynning)
(b Fredrikstad, July 6, 1882; d Biri, June 9, 1961).
Norwegian architect. He was trained as a draughtsman at the Royal School of Design in Christiania (now Oslo) from 1899 to 1902, and as an architect at the Royal Polytechnic in Stockholm from 1904 to 1906. He worked as an assistant to Erik Lallerstedt in Stockholm (1906–7) and in partnership with Ole Sverre (1865–1932), in Christiania (1907–8), where he afterwards started his own practice. Some of his larger projects were carried out in collaboration with Magnus Poulsson, including his best-known works, the Telegraph building (1916–24) and the Town Hall (1916–51; see Oslo, fig.), both in Oslo. Like Poulsson, Arneberg was a major exponent of the National Romanticism that developed after Norway gained complete independence in 1905. His project for the Royal Hunting Lodge at Voksenkollen (second prize with Sverre, 1905) represented the first clear break with the then-dominant ‘Dragon style’ (...
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.
