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 A1U5ASIA ARBASIA, CESARE, born at Saluzzo about middle of IGth century, died in 1614. Italo-Spauish school; employed in Spain, where he executed frescos for churches and palaces, in 1579-81-8(3 ; must have re- turned to Italy about 1595, as he was one of the originators and first members of the Accad. S. Luca in Home, founded in that year. Later painted frescos in Saluzzo and neighbourhood, which, according to Mdn- dler, suggest the manner of Federigo Zuc- caro, and of B. Lauiui. Meyer, Kilust. Lex., ii. 213 ; F. Quilliet, Arti Italiaue in Ispagna 1 (Rome, 1825), 33. ARBELA, BATTLE OF, Albrecht Alt- (Jorfcr, Munich Gallery ; wood, H. 4 ft. 11 : in. x 3 ft. 8 in. ; signed, dated 1529. A ' spirited battle scene, with thousands of small figures on foot and mounted ; in centre Alexander and Darius ; background, a land- scape with mountains and sea. Painted by order of Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria. Carried to France in 1800 ; nt St. Cloud a favourite picture of Napoleon I. ; returned in 1815. By Charles Lebrun, Louvre, Paris ; can- vas, H. 15 ft. 5 in. x 41 ft. 4 in. Accord- ing to Q. Curtius (IV.), the soldiers of Alexander saw, in the height of the battle, an eagle hovering over the head of Alex- ander, which Aristander, the chief sooth- sayer of the king, pointed out as an infallible omen of victory. The Macedonians pressed on with renewed vigor, and Darius, who was mounted upon a lofty chariot, seeing all hope lost, sought safety in flight. Series of i History of Alexander. Engraved by G. Audran (1G74), D. Bertaux. Filhol, iii. PL 151 ; Villot, Cat. Louvre. ARBO, PETER NIKOLAI, born in Dram- men, Norway, in 1831. History painter ; pupil, in Copenhagen, of Helsted, then from 1852 at the Dtisseldorf Academy under Kail Sohn ; studied in Paris in 1861-70. He is a knight of the order of Vasa and director ! of the drawing school at Christiania. Works : The Walkyries, The Wild Chase, Asgard's Reigen, Christiauia Gallery; Ingeborg, Bjarke's and Hjalte's Death, The Day, Scenes from the Thirty Years' War, do. from Time of Louis XIV., Battle of Waterloo. ' Mailer, 16. ARBORELIUS, OLOF PER, born in Orsa, Dalecaiiia, Nov. 4, 1842. Landscape painter, pupil of the Stockholm Academy, where he won in 18(59 a prize and went in 1870 to Diisseldorf and later to Rome. Paints chiefly Swedish and Italian scenes. Works : Cliffs on Swedish Coast in a Storm Bear-Hunt. Mailer, 16. ARCADIA, SHEPHERDS OF (Bergers d'Arcadie), Nicolas Powvin, Louvre, Paris ; canvas, H. 2 ft 9 in. x 4 ft Allegory illus- trative of the brevity of life. In the middle of a desert plain, with mountains in back- ground, three shepherds and a young girl, in antique costume, have paused before a tomb shaded by trees ; at left, the oldest, kneeling, points with his finger to the words cut in the stone : ET IN ARCADIA EGO. Collection of Louis XTV. Engraved by Picart le Romain ; M. and A. ReindeL Rep- etition in Devonshire House, London, has tomb at one side. This engraved by Ravenet. Filhol, ii. PL 109 ; Landon, Musce, vL PL 37 ; Mus6e royal ; Villot, Cat Louvre. ARCANGELO, ANDREA DI CIONE. See Orcayna. ARCESILAUS, Greek painter, son of the sculptor Tisicrates, of Sicyon, about 286 ac. Painted a picture of the Athenian gen- eral Leostheues, which Pausanias (i. 1, 3) saw in the Pineus. Pliny, xxxv. 40, 42 [146]. ARCESILAUS, Greek painter, of Paros, probably fifth century B.C. Said by Pliny (xxxv. 39 [122]), to have been, with Pol>j<j- notus, one of the earliest painters in encaus- tic. Perhaps identical with the sculptor, son of Aristodicus, on whom Simouides wrote an epigram (Diog. Laer. Arces. xxi.). A painter of the same name is mentioned by Athenanis (x. p. 420), as a tutor of Apelles. Brunn, ii. 55. ARCHER, JAMES, born in Edinburgh in 1824. Genre uiid portrait painter ;
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