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ALBANI, or ALBANO, FRANCESCO

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 481 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBANI, or ALBANO, See also:FRANCESCO -(I578-4166o), See also:Italian painter, was See also:born at See also:Bologna. His See also:father was a See also:silk See also:merchant, and intended to bring up his son to the same occupation; but Albani was already, at the See also:age of twelve, filled with so strong an inclination for See also:painting, that on the See also:death of his father he devoted himself entirely to alt. His first See also:master, was See also:Denis qalvert,,with whom Guido Reni was at the same See also:time a See also:pupil.. He was soon See also:left by See also:Calvert entirely to the care of Guido, and contracted with him a See also:close friendship. He followed Guido to the school of the See also:Caracci; but after this, owing to mutual rivalry, their ,friendship began gradually to cool. They kept up for a See also:long time a keen competition, and their mutual emulation called forth some' of their best productions. Notwithstanding this rivalry, they still spoke of each other with the highest esteem. Albani after having greatly improved himself in the school of the Caracci; went to See also:Rome, where he opened an See also:academy And resided for many years. Here he painted, after the designs of Annibal Caracci, the whole of the frescoes in the See also:chapel of See also:San Diego in the See also:church of San Giacomo degli Spagnuoli. His best frescoes are those on mythological subjects, of which there is a large number in the Verospi, now Torlonia See also:Palace. On the death of his wife he returned to Bologna, where he married a second time and resided till his death. His wife and See also:children were very beautiful and served him for See also:models.

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composition of his pictures, and their See also:minute elaboration and exquisite finish, gave them See also:great celebrity and entitle them to a , distinctive See also:place among the products of the Bolognese school. A number of his See also:works are at Bologna, and others at See also:Florence, the, Louvre, See also:Dresden and St See also:Petersburg. Among the best of his sacred subjects are a "St See also:Sebastian " and an "See also:Assumption, of the Virgin," both in the church of St Sebastian at Rome. He was among the first of the Italian painters to devote himself to the painting of See also:cabinet pictures. A rare See also:etching, the " Death of See also:Dido," is attributed to him.

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