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 ANSALONI— APOLLONIO. 9 Stefano, in the Fioravanti Chapel, the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian ; and from the church of the Gelestines, now in the Academy, the Virgin and Child in the Clouds, with Saints below. (Ijanzi.) ANSELMI, GiOBGio, 6. at Verona in 1723, d, 1797, was the scholar of £a. lestra. Principal work, frescoes of the cupola of Sant' Andrea at Mantua. Ve- netian School. {Affb.) ANSELMl, MicHEiiANaELO, h, at Lucca in 1491, d, 1554. Studied at Lucca under II Sodoma, and afterwards with the same master at Siena, whence he is sometimes called Michelangelo da Siena ; he was, however, a devoted fol- lower of Correggio; his outlines are large and full, his heads well studied, and his colouring glowing, but with too much red in it; his composition is weak. Works^ Parma, in the church of the Madonna della Steccata, and other churches. Louvre, Madonna and Saints, much after the style of Correggio. (Affd.) ANSUINO DA FoBLi,|>. ahout 1460. Pupil of Squarcione. Engaged with Andrea Mantegna, in painting the fres- coes of the chapel of SS. Jacopo e Gristoforo, in the church degl' Eremi- tani at Padua. {Brandolese.) ANTONELLO da Messina, called also Antonello d'Antonio, Ant. Degl' Antoni, and Antonello Mamertini, h, at Messina ahout 1414, d. at Venice, 1493-6. Of great importance in the history of Italian painting, from the fact of his having introduced the Van Eyck method of oil (or rather varnish) painting into Italy. Antonello saw a picture by John Van Eyck, at Naples, about 1442, and heing much astonished at the character of the impastoj visited Flanders in order to learn the secret from the painter. He arrived at Bruges after the death of John Van Eyck, who died in July, 1441, but learnt the method from the younger hrother Lam- hert Van Eyck. He appears to have spent some years in the Low Countries, and to have then settled eventually in Venice ahout 1460-70, and communi- cated the method to Domenico Vene- ziano, through whom it subsequently spread throughout Italy. His works resemhle the Van Eycks', hut are in- ferior. The works of AntoneUo are scarce : — ^Antwerp Gallery, a Crucifixion be- tween the Two Thieves, with the in- scription — 1475 Antonellus Messaneus^ me 09 pinxt. Venice, Academy, the Virgin Beading. Florence, at the Uffizj, a male portrait Vienna, Gallery, Dead Christ, with Weeping Angels. Berlin, Gallery, a Portrait of a young man (1445?); the Head of St. Sebastian, 1478 ; and a Madonna and Child. Paris, collection of Count Portalis, a Portrait. {Vasari, Eastlake, Carton.) ANTONIANO Febrakese, or An- tonio Alberto, of Ferrara, of the school of Angiolo Gaddi, j>. about 1438, d, about 1450. Executed considerable works in the Palace of Alberto D'Este, at Ferrara; others at San Francesco D'Urbino, and at Citta di Castello. {Baruffaldi.) ANTONIO and GIOVANNI of Padua. [Giunto Padovano.] APOLLODORO, Francesco, called H Porcia, a portrait-painter of Friuli, living at Padua in 1606. Venetian School. (Ridolfi.) APOLLONIO, Agostino, of Sant' Angelo in Vado, painted about 1536. Boman School. Assisted his uncle Luzio Dolci in his works. He settled at Castel Durante. APOLLONIO, Jacopo, of Bassano, d. 1654, aged about 70. Venetian School. A relative of the Bassanos. Though inferior to his models, he is one of the best of their followers ; he excelled in landscape. Works, Bassano, the Dome, a Magdalen ; San Sebastiano, St. Sebas-