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 Antiope, Correggio, Louvre.

but went early to the court of Philip of Macedon. The latter part of his life was spent at the court of Ptolemy Soter, who is said to have had him sold into slavery for falsely accusing Apelles. Among his works were a portrait of the young Alexander; a group of Athena, Philip, and Alexander; a Dionysus; an Hippolytus alarmed at the bull; a Cadmus and Europa, preserved in the Curia of Pompey, Rome; a Satyr with a panther's skin, shielding his eyes from beams of light coming from a fixed point; and a boy blowing the fire with his breath. Though he had great fertility of invention and skill in managing the effect of light, Pliny places him in the second rank of artists; but Quintilian mentions him among the most eminent painters of his age.—Pliny, xxxv. 37 [114], 40 [138]; Brunn, ii. 247.

ANTOLINEZ, Don JOSÉ, born in Seville in 1639, died in Madrid in 1676. Spanish school; pupil of Francisco Rizi; became a good colourist, his best works being landscapes with small figures. Works: Magdalen; Madrid Museum; St. Anthony of Padua, Academia S. Fernando, Madrid; Conception, Madonna in Glory, Museo Fomento, ib.; St. Jerome in a Cavern, Munich Gallery.—Stirling, iii. 1106; Viardot, 211; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 115; Madrazo, 345.

ANTOLINEZ Y SARABIA, Don FRANCISCO, born in Seville in 1644, died in Madrid in 1700. Spanish school; nephew of José Antolinez; studied law at first, but entered school of Murillo and became an amateur of considerable skill, painting especially small religious subjects, sometimes on copper. Went in 1672 to Madrid, obtained a provincial judgeship, but did not hold it long, and returned to Seville and painted secretly while practising as an advocate. Works: Nativity, Seville Cathedral; St. Joseph and Infant Jesus, St. Joseph Dreaming, Duc de Montpensier, San Telmo; Purification of Virgin, Adoration, Flight into Egypt, Annunciation, Marriage of Virgin, Museo Nacional, Madrid.—Stirling, iii. 1108; Viardot, 212; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 115; Curtis, 342.

ANTON VON WORMS. See Woensam.

ANTONELLO DA MESSINA, born in Messina about 1444, died in Venice about 1493. Neapolitan school; said to have been a pupil of Colantonio del Fiore, but this