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 fresco, and decorated innumerable churches and monasteries in and out of Bavaria, working conjointly with his brother Aegidius, sculptor, notably the Cathedral of Freising, 1723-24. He was court painter to the Elector of Bavaria. Works: Vulcan forging Arms for Æneas, Ceiling in the Chapel, Schleissheim Castle; Decorations in Chapel and Staircase, Grand-ducal Palace, Mannheim; do. in St. John's, Munich.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 321.

ASCENSION (Fr. Ascension, Ital. Ascensione, Sp. Ascension, Ger. Himmelfahrt, Aussteigung), the ascension to Heaven of Christ after the Entombment (Acts i. 9-11).

Ascension, by Perugino, Lyons Museum.

By P. Perugino, Lyons Museum, France; wood, transferred to canvas; figures nearly life size. Christ, draped below the waist, and attended by angels, two on each side, is supported by two other angels in a glory of cherubs' heads. He points upward with both hands, where two seraphs attend the Eternal, in a circular glory of same kind, in benediction; below, the Virgin, SS. Peter and Paul, and Apostles looking upward. Formerly central part of great altarpiece of S. Pietro, Perugia; taken to Paris and cleaned in 1815, and given to Lyons by Pius VII.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 205.

By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. Christ ascending, sustained by angels. Beneath, a sort of epitome of events preceding the ascension; in distance, two apostles going to Emmaus; nearer, a group round a table set in a little valley; and in foreground a reclining figure (St. Peter?).—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 340.

Subject treated also by Sebastiano Ricci, SS. Apostoli, Rome, Dresden Gallery; Giotto, S. M. dell' Arena, Padua; Correggio, S. Giovanni Evangelisti, Parma; Andrea Orcagna, National Gallery, London; Tintoretto, Il Redentore, Venice; Rubens, Jesuits' Church, Antwerp (burned, 1718).

ASCLEPIODORUS, painter, sculptor, and writer on art, Athens, second half of 4th century Praised by Apelles for skill in rendering the relative proportions of objects, and regarded by him as his superior in composition. His picture of the twelve great gods was purchased by Mnason, tyrant of