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 AMERIGHI— ANGAEANO. 1609. Boman School. He commenced life as a mason's labourer, practised por- trait some time in Milan, and acquired afterwards a fine taste for colour, from the works of Giorgione and other masters at Venice. He subsequently became the assistant of the Cav, D'Arpino at Borne, but eventually adopted a very opposite style of painting. Garavaggio is the head of the so-called naturalists, his style is true, forcible, and vulgar; his contrasts of Ught and shade are strong to harshness, and his shadows want transparency ; yet, in spite of its vulgarity, his style, as new as bold, found a host of imitators ; a bold and literal delineation of nature now super- seding the then prevailing too insipid idealism or eclecticism: even Annibal Oarracci declared that Garavaggio " ground flesh instead of colours." Works. Bome, the Fiet&, or En- tombment of Ghrist, in the Vatican; the Card- Players, or II Giuco di Garte, Sciarra Palace; the Fortune-Teller, in the Gapitol; others in the Quirinal, Lateran, Borghese, Gorsini, Barberini, Braschi, and Bospigliosi Palaces. Gal- lery of the Uffi^, Florence. Palazzo Prignole, Genoa, Baising of Lazarus : Dnrazzo Palace. Palazzo Balbi, Gon- version of St. Paul. Galleries of Mu- nich, Dresden, Berlin, Louvre, and National Gallery. {Bellori.) AMEDANO, PoMPONio, of Parma, lived in 1595. Lombard School. One of the followers and imitators of Par- megiano. His master-piece was painted for the church of the Madonna del Quartiere at Parma. (Orlandi.) AMIGAZZI, Giovanni Battista, a Veronese painter, lived 1642. The pupil and imitator of Glaudio Bidolfo; a good copyist also of Paul Veronese. Many works at Verona. {Dai Pozzo.) AMIGONI, Jacopo, b. at Venice, 1675, d. at Madrid, 1752. He visited London in 1729, and practised here histoiy and portrait for ten years, and returned to his own countiy with 5000/. He was afterwards court painter to Ferdinand VI. of Spain. His style, notwithstanding his success, was weak and superficial : he was a bad imitator of Sebastiano Bicd. {Zanetti, Walpole.) AMIGONI, Ottavio, 6. atBresdain 1605, d, there in 1661. He was the pupil of Antonio Gandino; painted chiefly in fresco. At Brescia, in the Garmelite church, is a large fresco by this artist and the younger Gandino. {Orlandif Brognoli.) AMOBOSI, Antonio, lived in 1736, at Ascoli. Boman School. He was in- structed in the school of the Cav. Giu. Ghezzi; he painted chiefly bam- bocciate, or subjects from common life, and with great skill, but occasionally historical and religious works. He painted a hall in the Town-House of Givita Vecchia. (PascolL) ANASTASI, Giovanni, 6. at Sini- gaglia in 1654, d, in 1704. Boman School. His best works are at Sini- gaglia, in the church della Groce. {Marchesellij Lanzi.) ANDBEASI, Ippolito, a painter of Mantua of the sixteenth century (1540- 87), and scholar of Giulio Bomano. He painted from the cartoons of that master. Works at Santa Barbara. (Lami, Zani.) ANDBIA, TuGCio di, painted in Sa- vona in 1487. Genoese School. A picture, a predella, by this artist, of the Saviour Blessing the Disdples, is in the Louvre. ANDBIOLT, Girolamo, a Veronese painter, living 1606. Works, in Santa Gaterina di Siena, at Verona. (Dai Pozzo.) ANESI, Paolo, a Florentine painter of the eighteenth century; painted chiefly landscapes, and ancient ruins in the style of Paolo Pannini. Several works at Florence and at Bome. {Lanzi.) ANGABANO, II Gonte Ottaviano,