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 6 ALTOBELLO— AMERIGHI. he was a good painter : his master-piece is Sant' Ignazio, in the church of San Francesco Saverio, Naples. {Dominlci.) ALUNNO, N1CCOL6, of Foligno, painted from 1458 to 1499. Umbrian School. He painted & temperay and his colouring is accordingly well preserved, his heads are painted from nature, and his example was followed by the sub- sequent painters of his school, which he much advanced. There are still some remains of his pictures in the cathedral of Assisi, in which Yasari admired the Weeping Angels : he was a painter of extraordinary merit for his time. There are several pictures bearing the signature "Nicolai Fulginatis opus," but they are probably not all by Alunno, as there was also a Niccolo di Liberatore, an old painter of Foligno. There is a fine picture in the Brera at Milan, dated 1465; and a Predella, with six subjects, in the Louvre, from the altar of San Niccolo di Foligno. {Mariotti.) AMADEI, Stefano, b, at Perugia in. 1589, d. 1644. He was the pupil of Giulio Cesare Angeli; painted history and portraits, and opened a school of art at Eome. His pictures are chiefly at Perugia. {Pascoli.) AMALTEO, PoMPONio, h, at San Vito, in theFriuli,in 1505, d. about 1588. He was the scholar and son-in-law of Pordenone, in whose style he painted, but with more delicacy of execution, though less vigour; his colouring is very gay and his drawing good. Id. a Loggia at Ceneda, used as a court of justice, are the three Judg- ments, by him, of Solomon, of Daniel, and of Trajan, painted in 1536, which have been erroneously ascribed to Por- denone by Ridolfi. Belluno also pos- sesses some good works by Amalteo. GiROLAMO, his brother, painted small historical pictures, of very elaborate finish ; he died young : and Quintilia, the daughter of Pomponio, painted por- traits, and executed some works in sculpture. Venetian School. (AUan Benaldis,) AMATO, Gio. Antonio d* (II Veo- chio), b. at Naples in 1475, and d. there in 1555. He studied the pictures of Silvestro Buono and Pietro Perugino, and formed his style from them. His works are exclusively religious ; several of his oil pictures are still preserved at Naples. Neapolitan School. AMATO, Gio. Antonio d* (H Gio- vane), b. at Naples in 1535, and d. in 1598. He was the nephew and pupil of the elder Amato. His colouring is exceedingly rich; at Naples, in the church of the Banco de' Poveri, is still his large and celebrated altar-piece of the Infant Christ. Neapolitan School. AMATRIGE, Cola dell' (Filo- TEsio), a Neapolitan painter and archi- tect, domiciliated at Ascoli in 1523. He was a native of Amatrice, in Cala- bria, and there are dates on various works at Ascoli, from 1514 to 1535; he executed some frescoes at Citt^ di Castello several years later. His e^Lrly works were dry and meagre in style, but later in Ufe he adopted the improved design of his younger con- temporaries, though he never visited Bome. His principal works are the Last Supper, in the Oratorio del Corpus Domini; and the Procession to Cal- vary, in the refectory of the Minori osservanti delta Nunziata^ at Ascoli. {Vasariy Ovida d' Ascoli.) AMBEOGI, DoMENico degl', a Bo- lognese painter of the seventeenth cen- tury, called also Menichino del Brizio, after his master. An ornamental, land- scape and architectural painter; he also represented historical subjects, both in oil and in fresco; they are numerous in Bologna. {Malvasia,) AMERIGHI, or MERIGI, Michbl- ANOELO, called from his birth-place, Cabayagoio, b, 1569, d. at Porto Ercole,