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ASPER, HANS (1499-171)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 767 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ASPER, AEMILIUS
ASPER, HANS (1499-171)

ASPER, HANS (1499-171) , Swiss painter, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and died at See also:

Zurich. He wrought in a See also:

GREAT

great variety of styles, but excelled chiefly in See also:

flower and See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit pieces, and in portrait-See also:

PAINTING

painting. Many of his pictures have perished, but his See also:

style may be judged from the illustrations to See also:

GESSNER,

Gessner's Historia Animalium, for which he is said to have furnished the designs, and from portraits of See also:

ZWINGLI, HULDREICH (1484—1531)

Zwingli and his daughter See also:

REGULA

Regula Gwalter, which are preserved in the public library of Zurich. It has been usual to class Asper among the pupils and imitators of See also:

HOLBEIN, HANS

Holbein, but an inspection of his See also:

WORKS

works is sufficient to show that this is a See also:

MISTAKE (i.e. take amiss)

mistake. Though Asper was held in high reputation by his See also:

FELLOW

fellow-citizens, who elected him a member of the Great See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council, and had a See also:

MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal struck in his See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour, he seems to have died in poverty.

End of Article: ASPER, HANS (1499-171)

Additional information and Comments

The name Asper has nothing to the Latin word Aspergos, but with the Iranian name Asper (rooted in the Iranian word "asp," meaning horse. This is brilliantly demonstrated in Bachrach's "The Alans in the West." The aspers were Iranian horse-man,(nomads)who fled from the Huns and settled in the 4th century in all parts of Western Europe. They're closest relatives are the Ossetians of the Caucusus mountains.

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