A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
The Vestals keeping up the sacred fire ; after the same.
La Vierge au Pistolet; after Carlo Maratti.
The Trium[ih of Keligion ; after the same.
St. Luke showiug the Virgin Mary the portrait he had
painted of her ; after the same.
The Death of the Virgin ; after Morandi.
The Bible of Raphael, a set of fifty-two prints; en-
titled Imagines Veteris ac Kori Testameiiti. Cesare
Fantetti engraved thirty-seven of the prints in this
Bible ; the remaining fifteen are by Pietro Aquila,
and are very superior to those of Fantetti.
The Farnese Gallery, in twenty-five plates, with the
statues and ornaments.
The Chamber of the Palace Farnese, in thirteen plates ;
mscribed Imagines Farnesiani Ciibiculi.
The Assembly o"f the Gods, from the painting by Laii-
franco, in the Villa Borghese at Rome ; in nine plates.
There are some other plates by this artist, which
will be found described in the ' Dictionnaire des
Artistes,' by Heineken, and in Meyer's ' Allge-
meines Klinstler-Lexikon.'
AQUILA, PoMPEo dall'. See Dall' Aquila
AQUILIO, Antonio, called Antoniasso, AntoNIACCI, or Antonazo, was a painter who flourished in Rome in the latter part of the 15th century. He was much employed for the churches and con- vents ; but his style was only mediocre. Apaint- ing by hira of the year 1464 is in the sacristy of the convent of Sant' Antonio del Monte at Rieti. It represents the Madonna and Child with SS. Anthony and Francis. Another, of the year 1483, is in the cathedral of Velletri, and a third is in the cathedral of Capua. It was executed in 1489 for Girolamo Gaetano, Archbishop of Capua, and bears the following inscription: antonatids ro- makds m. for. p. mcccclxxxix. It has been much injured by restoration. Antoniasso died about 1500.
AQUILIO, Marco, a son of Antonio Aquilio, is the author of the ' Resurrection,' still preserved in the refectory of the convent of Santa 3hiara, at Bieti. The predella contains scenes drawn from the Passion ; on the border of one of them can be read, Marcus Antonius MaoS Antonatii romanus DEPINXIT M.n.X.L.
ARAGON, Juan de, an historical painter who resided at Granada in 1580, and was one of the distinguished professors who ornamented the beautiful monastery of St. Jerome.
ARALDI, Alessandro, who was born at Panna about the year 1405, studied under Cristoforo Caselli, of the school of Giovanni Bellini. He painted history in a style which Lanzi denomin- ates antico moderno. In the Parma Gallery is a picture by this master, representing the 'Annuncia- tion,' which is mentioned as a very creditable per- formance ; and in the cathedral there is a fresco, executed by him in 1509, of the ' Virgin and Child, with St. Joseph.' The churches of his native city contain works by him. He died in or after 1530.
ARBASIA, Cesare, a native of Saluzzo, and a pupil of Federigo Zuccaro, flourished towards the close of the 16th century. He visited Spain during the reign of Philip II., and there executed some important works. His style is an imitation of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, and he is incor- rectly stated to have been his scholar. His chief excellence was in fresco painting, to which the ceiling of the church of the Benedictine monks at Savigliano, the work in the Palazzo Pubblico of his native town, and other considerable paintings, bear testimony. He was an artist of great ability, and painted some excellent pictures at Malaga and Cor- dova, in fresco and oil. For a picture of the ' In- carnation,' and some other works in the cathedral of Malaga, he was paid three thousand ducats. At Cordova, in 1583, he painted in fresco, in the sanc- tuary of the cathedral, the martyrs of that place. Leaving Spain, probably with Federigo Zuccaro, his former master, he went to Rome, and was one of the founders of the Academy of St. Luke, of which Zuccaro was the first president. He is said to have died in Spain in 1614, and is ranked by Palomino and Cean Bermudez among the Span- ish painters. Palomino's account of this painter is incorrect in almost every statement.
ARBO, Peter Nikolai, was born at Drammen, Norway, in 1831. He was a pupil in Copenhagen of Helsted, and studied from 1852 at the Diisseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn, and in Paris 1861-70. He was afterwards director of the drawing school at Christiania, where he died in 1892. Among his pictures, which generally represent northern legend and historical scenes, the principal are 'The Walkyries,' 'Asgards Reigen,' and 'The Wild Chase' in the National Gallery, Christiania. Others are 'Ingeborg,' 'Bjarke's and Hjalte's Death,' 'The Day,"SceDes from the Thirty Years' War,' 'Scenes from the Time of Louis XIV.,' and 'The Battle of Waterloo.'
ARBOS Y AYERBE, Manuel, who was a good Spanish miniature painter, was sent to Rome by Ferdinand VII., and was subsequently court- painter to Isabella II. He died at Madrid in 1875.
ARCA, Leonardo dell'. See Dell' Arca.
ARCAGNUOLO (Arcagnolo, or Arcagno). See CioNB, Andrea di.
ARCHER, John Wykeham, was bom at New- castle-upon-Tyne, in 1808. In 1820 he came to London, and became a pupil of John Scott, the celebrated engraver of animals. In 1827 he pro- duced in Newcastle a series of large etchings of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, and etchings of the Abbey Church, and Abbot's Tower at Hexham. He then removed to Edinburgh, where he made a collection of drawings of the ancient edifices and streets of that town, after which he returned to London, and entered the studio of Messrs. W. and E. Finden, in order to improve himself in engraving upon steel. Having been elected a member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, he produced a series of drawings of St. Mary Overy, previous to its restoration, and of Lambeth Palace in all its parts. Archer was the author of ' Vestiges of Old London,' a large quarto volume, illustrated by etchings ; likewise of a series of papers in Douglas Jerrold's Maga- zine, entitled ' The Recreations of Mr. Zigzag the Elder,' and of numerous contributions to different journals. His principal drawings are a series, some hundreds in number, of the ancient remains of London and its vicinity, in the Willinm Twopenny collection, and a series of the an- tiquities of his native county of Northumberland, in the collection at Alnwick Castle. He also claimed to have revived the ancient practice of engraving on monumental brass, and produced several large monuments of this description from his own designs. He likewise painted a few works in oiL He died May 25, 1864.
ARCHIMEDES. See Genoels.
ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe, was born at Milan in 1533. He excelled in painting the interiors of kitchens, with fruit, vegetables, culinary utensils, &c., and occasionally introduced into his pictures grotesque figures and drolleries, formed of flowers and fruits, which at a distance appeared like
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