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 23, 1794) was also a good landscape painter, won first prize by Ghent Academy in 1829. Work: View of Boitsfort near Brussels, National Gallery, Amsterdam.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, i. 500; Messager des Sciences, etc. (1841), 293; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 344.

ASSELT, JOHANNES VAN DER, flourished 1364-1386, at Ghent. Flemish school; the earliest Flemish painter whose name is known to us. Employed by Louis de Male, Count of Flanders; afterward by Philip the Hardy, of Burgundy. Probably painted the frescos in the chapel of Notre Dame, Courtrai, full lengths of the Counts of Flanders since Philip d'Alsace, now greatly injured.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 347; C. & C., Flemish Painters, 12.

ASSELYN (Asselin), JAN, called Krabbetje, born at Diepen in 1610, died in Amsterdam in 1660. Dutch school; landscape painter, pupil of Esaias van de Velde; resided in Rome from 1630 to 1645, where he was influenced by Jan Miel and Pieter van Laar. Works: View of the Tiber, Landscape with Travellers, and two other pictures, Louvre; Swan Defending her Nest, Landscape, National Gallery, Amsterdam; Italian Landscape, Brussels Museum; Ruined Castle, Münich Gallery; Woman and Cattle, Sir Th. Baring, England.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 445; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 348; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise.

ASSERETO (Axareto), GIOVACCHINO, born in Genoa, about 1600, died there, July 28, 1649. Pupil of Luziano Borzone and of Ansaldo. From his sixteenth year he painted altarpieces for churches and monasteries in Genoa, and in 1639 went to Rome; after his return painted chiefly frescos; was in his time the best painter in Genoa.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 351; Lavice, Musées d'Italie, 114.

ASSISI, ANDREA D'. See Ingegno.

ASSMUS, ROBERT, born at Stuhm, West Prussia, Dec. 25, 1842. Landscape painter; studied from nature and after Calame; went to Berlin in 1859, and was much impressed by the works of Trogon and Lessing. Supported himself by working for illustrated papers, until after the war of 1870-71, when he took up landscape painting, settled in Munich, visited Upper Italy, Hungary, the Baltic Sea, Switzerland, etc., and published an illustrated work, Alsace-Lorraine, which was most favourably received. Works: The Gemmi Pass, Wood Lake, View near Stuttgart, Village in the Carpathian Mountains, Aussee, Landscape in Lorraine, On the Banks of the Weichsel, Evening, Windmills in a Storm.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 354; Müller, 19.

ASSUMPTION (Fr. Assomption, Ital. Assunzione, Sp. Asuncion, Ger. Mariä Himmelfahrt), the ascension to Heaven of the Virgin after death, according to the legend of the Latin and Greek churches.

By Fra Bartolommeo, Besançon Cathedral, France. The Virgin and Child on a throne carried by Angels in clouds; below, left, SS. John Baptist, Sebastian, and Stephen; right, the patron Jean Carondelet, kneeling, and behind him St. Bernard and another saint. Of the master's best time. Placed first by Jean Carondelet, archbishop of Palermo, in his family chapel in S. Etienne, Besançon; after his death (1544) came into cathedral.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 477.

By Fra Bartolommeo, Naples Museum; wood, arched, figures life size. The Virgin, rising to heaven, rests one foot on the head of a little angel whose hands are crossed under his chin; below, SS. John and Catherine of Alexandria, the latter holding a palm, kneel at her tomb, which is filled with flowers. Painted in 1516 for S. M. in Cas