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 by his principal officers, extends his hand to Porus, who, wounded, is sustained by three soldiers; in background, the battle-*field. Series of History of Alexander. Engraved by G. Audran (1678), D. Bertaux.—Landon, Musée, ix. Pl. 21-23; Filhol, iv. Pl. 265; Villot, Catalogue Louvre.

ALEXANDER AND ROXANA, MARRIAGE OF. See Aëtion.

ALEXANDER IN TENT OF DARIUS. See Darius, Tent of.

ALEXANDER AT TOMB OF ACHILLES, Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican; picture in grisaille, under the Parnassus, at left. Alexander the Great, at right, orders a bearded man to place the poems of Homer in the sarcophagus, the lid of which is raised by a youth; at each side, six soldiers. Painted in 1511. Engraved by Marc Antonio, and others.—Passavant, i. 119.

ALEXEJEFF, FEODOR JAKOVLEVICH, born in St. Petersburg in 1753, died there in 1824. Architecture and perspective painter; pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, by which he was sent to Italy. At first painted flowers and fruits, but in Venice, where he arrived in 1774, devoted himself to perspective painting under Gaspari and Giuseppe Moretti. After his return he was official painter of decorations in 1779-87. In 1795 he went to Southern Russia to paint scenes visited by Catharine II. on her tour in 1787. Under Paul I. he was employed on decorative works. In 1803 he became professor at the Academy. Works in Moscow Museum.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 287.

ALEXEJEFF, NIKOLAI MICHAILOVICH, born in 1815. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Stupin. In 1836-40 he was at the head of the school at Arsames, Government of Nizhni-Novgorod, founded there by his relative Stupin in the beginning of the century. Works: Egyptians in Red Sea, Healing the Blind, Healing the Leper, Marriage at Cana, Christ rescuing Peter, Isaac Cathedral, St. Petersburg.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 288.

ALFANI, DOMENICO, born in Perugia in 1483 (?), died after 1553. Umbrian school, son of Paris Pandari Alfani, goldsmith and architect; pupil of Perugino at same time with Raphael, who became his intimate friend. Raphael invited him to Rome, but Domenico preferred to remain in Perugia, where he acted as Raphael's agent, and was repaid by an occasional sketch. He became a registered master in Perugia in 1510. In 1520 he legitimized his natural son Orazio and took him into partnership, after which they worked together. Domenico's earliest production is a Holy Family (1510), Perugia Gallery, painted after a drawing by Raphael. His Madonna and Saints, dated 1518, in the Collegio Gregoriano, Perugia, is thoroughly Raphaelesque. The Madonna with two Angels (1521), in the Cathedral of Città della Pieve, is painted in the same style, but the Madonna and Saints of 1524, in the Perugia Gallery, shows a change from the Umbrian manner of his earlier works to the bold treatment of the later Florentines. This change is more marked in a Madonna and Saints of 1532 in S. Giuliano, Perugia. In 1553 he painted, with Orazio, a Crucifixion, in S. Francesco, Perugia.—C. & C. Italy, iii. 364; Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 622; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 291; Burckhardt, 575; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.

ALFANI, ORAZIO, born in Perugia about 1510, died in Rome in 1583. Umbrian school, son and pupil of Domenico Alfani, whom he frequently assisted. He was the first president of the Academy of Perugia, and many pictures there are attributed to him, such as a Nativity and a Holy Family. The one certain work by this artist is the Crucifixion with SS. Jerome and Apollonia which he assisted his father in painting (1553), or finished after his death.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 365; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iii. 624; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 293; Burckhardt, 575, 652.