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APPIANI, ANDREA (1754-1817)

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APPIANI, ANDREA (1754-1817)

APPIANI, See also:
ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348)
ANDREA (1754-1817) , the best See also:

FRESCO (Ital. for cool, " fresh ")

fresco painter of his See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Milan. He was made pensioned artist to the See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

Italy by See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon, but lost his See also:

ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance after the events of 1814 and See also:

fell into poverty. See also:

Correggio was his See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model, and his best pieces, which are in the See also:

church of See also:

SANTA

Santa Maria presso See also:

SAN

San Celso and the royal See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace at Milan, almost See also:

RIVAL

rival those of his See also:

GREAT

great See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master. He also painted Napoleon and the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief personages of his See also:

court. Among the most graceful of his oil-paintings are his " See also:

VENUS

Venus and Love," and " Rinaldo in the See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden of Armida." He is known as " the See also:

elder," to distinguish him from his great-See also:

NEPHEW

nephew Andrea Appiani (1817-1865), an See also:

HISTORICAL

historical painter at See also:

Rome. Other painters of the same name were Niccolo Appiani (fl. 1510) and See also:

Francesco Appiani (1704-1792).

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