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 12 ASSISI— AVELMNO. Holy Family in the Louvre, attributed to him, but quite arbitrarily ; it is there- fore useless to speculate upon his style. He appears to have been a man of general aptness for business, and held several offices under the papal Govern- ment at Perugia. His complete name appears to have been Andrea di Aloisi. {Mumohr.) ^ ASSISI, TiBERio DI, or Tiberio Diatelevi, lived in the earlier part of the 16th century, and painted in the style of Pietro Perugino. Umbrian School. {Mariotti,) ASTA, Andrea dell', h. at Bagnuoli, about 1673, d, at Naples, 1721. Nea- politan SchooL He was the pupil of Solimena. He afterwards went to Eome, where he improved himself by the study of the works of Raphael. Works. Naples, church of St. Agos- tino of the bare-footed friars, the Na- tivity, and the Adoration of the Magi. (Dominici.) ATTAVANTE, Figrentino, an il- luminator of the latter part of the 15th century, who was engaged chiefly at Venice. In the library of St Mark there is a MS. of Marcianus Gapella, signed, Attavante$ Florentinm, pinxU, and in the Royal library at Brussels a splendid folio missal, illuminated by him, at Florence, for Matthias Oorvi- nus, king of Hungary, in the years 1486-87. {VasarL) AVANZI, GuisEPPE, b, at Ferrara, in 1665, d, 1718. Ferrarese School. He was of the school of Costanzo Cattanio. His pictures are more nu- merous than select; besides sacred subjects, he painted landscapes, fruit, and flowers, on canvas and on copper, mostly alia primal or at once. Works. Ferrara, the Oertosa, Be- heading of John the Baptist : others at the church of the Madonna della Pietli: at San Domenico, a Marriage of St Catherine. (Bartiffaldi.) AVANZI, Jacopo d', of Verona, or probably of Bologna, and the pupil of Vitale da Bologna. The Avanzi were an ancient and noble family of that place. Jacopo executed some works with Galasso, of Ferrara, and Cristo- fano, of Bologna, in the old church of the Madonna di Mezzaratta, which, says Lanzi, is to the School of Bologna what the Gampo Santo is to that of E^sa. The frescoes of the chapel of San Felice, in the church of Sant* Antonio, at Padua, painted in 1376, with Altichiero da Zevio, are con- sidered Jacopo's best works ; they were long supposed to be the works of Giotto. Other frescoes, in which Jacopo d' Avanzi was engaged, are those of the CappeUa di San Giorgio, at Padua, also painted by D' Avanzi and Altichiero da Zevio, about 1378 ; in both of which works it is not improbable that he was employed by Da Zevio. D'Avanzi painted also some frescoes at Verona, which were admired by Andrea Man- tegna; and Michelangelo and the Gar- racci are said to have thought very highly of his works at Bologna. There are a Gmcifixion and a Madonna crowned by her Son, in the gallery of the Academy, both sigaedJacobus PauUy /., which Giordani attributes to this painter. [Zevio.] {Maivasia, Forster.) AVANZINO, b. at Gitta di Gastello, in 1552, d, at Rome, 1629. He was the scholar of Pomarancio, and exe- cuted several frescoes in the churches of Rome. {Baglione.) AVELLINO, GiuLio, called II Mes- sinese, d, about 1700. He was bom at Messina, but lived and painted chiefly at Ferrara, where he revived the art of landscape-painting, which had been neglected after the age of the Dossi. Avellino was the scholar of Salvator Rosa, and painted much in his style, and he enriched his views with ruins, architectural objects, and small well- executed and spirited figures. {Lanzi,) AVELLINO, Onofbio, b, at Naples,