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 ALSLOOT, DENIS VAN, born before 1628. Excellent landscape painter, Flemish school; pictures very rare. Court painter to Archduke Albert, Governor of the Netherlands, about 1599. Works: Landscape (with figures by H. de Clerck), Vienna Museum; Masquerade on the Ice, two pictures of Processions of Guilds in Brussels, Madrid Museum; Castle and Park of Mariemont (1620), Brussels Museum; Abbey of La Cambre (1609), Nantes Museum.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 527; Viardot, 107; Michiels, Rubens, 347.

ALT, JAKOB, born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Sept. 17, 1789, died in Vienna, Sept. 30, 1872. Landscape painter, studied at Frankfort and, after 1811, in Vienna. Painted scenes in the Austrian Alps, on the Danube, in Upper Italy, which he visited in 1828 and 1833, and Rome. Works: Isle of S. Giorgio Maggiore (1834), Vienna Museum; Grave Yard at Hallstadt; Gargnano on Lake Garda.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 532; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 26, xi. 345; Allgem. d. Biogr., i. 355.

ALT, RUDOLF, born in Vienna, Aug. 28, 1812. Landscape and architecture painter, chiefly in water colours; son and pupil of Jakob Alt and student at Vienna Academy. Has travelled extensively in Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the Crimea. Is a member of the Vienna Academy. His few oil paintings are inferior to his water colours, which command high prices in Vienna. Works in oil: St. Stephen's Church (1832), Giardini pubblici in Venice (1834), Vienna Museum; Gate of Prague, Venice, Well in Nuremberg. Water colours: Cloister Yard of Monreale, Harbour of Palermo, Arch of Titus in Rome, Castle Hollenegg, Well in Nuremberg, Bird's-Eye View of Danube, Old and New Vienna, Orvieto Cathedral, Milan Cathedral, Campo Vaccino, S. Marco in Venice, Coast near Naples, Dürrenstein, Temple of Vesta. His brother Franz (born 1821) went through same course of study and paints similar subjects.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 533; Müller, 11; Wurzbach, i. 15.

ALT, THEODOR, born at Döhlau, Bavaria, June 23, 1846. Genre painter, pupil of Kreling in Nuremberg, and of the Munich Academy. His pictures of subjects from modern life show great talent for composition, feeling for nature, and harmonious colour.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 535.

ALTAMURA, SAVERIO, born at Foggia, Italy, in 1824. History painter, pupil of the Naples Academy, and one of the most distinguished Italian masters of modern times; has painted since 1850 mostly in Florence; in 1862 visited France and England. Favourite subjects, historical genre. Studio in Naples. Works: Origin of the Guelphs and Ghibellines in Florence; Marius Conqueror of the Cimbri (1861), Senate Chamber, Florence; Old Hatred and New Love; Madonna Enthroned; Tasso in Sorrento; Salvator Rosa among the Robbers; Doubt and Faith.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 535.

ALTARPIECE OF BRESCIA. See Brescia.

ALTDORFER, ALBRECHT, born before 1480, died at Ratisbon, Feb. 12 or 14, 1538. History and landscape painter, strongly influenced by Dürer, possibly his pupil; came from Amberg to Ratisbon, was admitted to burgher rights in 1505, and afterwards elected alderman and city architect. One of the most remarkable masters of the Old German school. Works: Birth of Mary, Altarpiece with Christ on the Cross (1517), Augsburg Gallery; Pietà, Madonna in Glory, Susanna at the Bath (1526), Landscape with St. George (1510), Battle of Arbela (1529), Pinakothek, Munich; Altarpiece with SS. Narcissus and Matthew, University, ib.; Christ on the Cross (1506), Burg, Nuremberg; St. Stephen before the Judge, Martyrdom of St. Stephen, St. Quirinus lifted out of the Water, St. Jerome in Prayer, Maurice Chapel, ib.; SS. Francis and Jerome (1507), Landscape with Satyr Family (1507), Repose in Egypt (1510), Landscape with Illustration of Proverb (1531), Berlin Museum; Madonna (1515),