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See also:CANINI, GIOVANNI AGNOLO (1617-1666) , See also:Italian designer and engraver, was See also:born at See also:Rome. He was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Domenichino and afterwards of See also:Antonio Barbalonga. He painted some See also:altar-pieces at Rome, including two admired pictures for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:San Martino a' Monti, representing the martyrdom of St See also:Stephen and of St See also:Bartholomew. Having accompanied See also:Cardinal Chigi to See also:France, he was encouraged by the See also:minister See also:Colbert to carry into See also:execution his project of designing from medals, See also:antique gems and similar See also:sources a See also:series of portraits of the most illustrious characters of antiquity, accompanied with See also:memoirs; but shortly after the commencement of the undertaking Canini died at Rome. The See also:work, however, was prosecuted by his See also:brother See also:Marcantonio, who, with the assistance of See also:Picard and See also:Valet, completed and published it in 1699, under the See also:title of Iconografia di Gio. Ag. Canini. It contains 150 engravings. A reprint in Italian and See also:French appeared at Amster-See also:dam in 1731.
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