ASSEI.T 23, 1794) was also a good landscape painter, won first prize by Ghent Academy in 182'J. Work : View of Boitsfort near Brussels, National Gallery, Amsterdam. Biog. nat de Belgique, i. 500 ; Messager des Sciences, etc. (1841), 293 ; Meyer, KOnsL Lex., ii. 344. ASSELT, JOHANNES VAN DER, flour- ished 13G4-1386, at Ghent. Flemish school ; the earliest Flemish painter whose name is known to us. Employed by Louis de Male, Count of Flanders ; afterward by Philip the Hardy, of Burgundy. Probably painted the frescos in the chapel of Notre Dame, Cour- trai, full lengths of the Counts of Flanders since Philip d 'Alsace, now greatly injured. Meyer, Ktlnst. Lex., ii. 347 ; C. & C., Flem- ish Painters, 12. ASSELYX (Asseliu), JAN, called Kralv betje, born at D i e p e n in 1010, died in Amsterdam in 16GO. Dutch school ; laud- scape painter, pupil of Esaias van de Velde ; resided in Rome from 1G30 to 1645, where he was influenced by Jan Miel and Pieter van Laar. Works : View of the Tiber, Landscape with Travel- lers, and two other pictures, Louvre ; Swan Defending her Nest, Landscape, National Gallery, Amsterdam ; Italian Landscape, ^~7 Brussels Museum ; Ruined Cas- / I tie, Munich Gallery ; Woman and J-4 ' Cattle, Sir Th. Baring, England. J I - Kugler (Crowe), ii. 445 ; ^ A Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., ii. 348 ; Ch. Blanc, ficole hollandaise. ASSERETO (Axareto), GIOVACCHINO, born in Genoa, about 1600, died there, July 28, 1649. Pupil of Luziano Borzone and of Ansaldo. From his sixteenth year he painted ultarpieces for churches and monasteries in ] | Genoa, and in 1639 went to Rome ; after Ins return painted chiefly frescos ; was in his time the best {winter in Genoa. Meyer,
- Kiinst. Lex., ii. 351 ; Lavice, Musvcs dltalic,
! 114. ASSISI, ANDREA D . See Inyegno. ASSMUS, ROBERT, bom at Stuhm, West Prussia, Dec. 25, 1K42. Landscape ! painter ; studied from nature and after Calamc ; went to Berlin in 1H59, and was much impressed by the works of Trogon and Lessing. Supported himself by work- ing for illustrated papers, until after the war of 1870-71, when lie took up landscape- painting, settled in Munich, visited Upper Italy, Hungary, the B:iltic Sea, Switzerland, etc., and published an illustrated work. Alsace-Lorraine, which was most favourably received. Works : The Gemmi Pass, Wood Lake, View near Stuttgart, Village in the Carpathian Mountains, Aussee, Landscape in Lorraine, On the Banks of the AVcichsel, Evening, Windmills in a Storm. Meyer, Kflnst. Lex., ii. 354 ; Midler, 19. ASSUMPTION (Fr. Assomption, ItiiL Assunzione, Sp. Asuncion, Ger. Maria Him- melfahrt), the ascension to Heaven of the Virgin after death, according to the legend of the Latin and (Jreek churches. Bv Fra Bartoiommeo, Besam/on Cathedral, France. The Virgin and Child on a throne carried by Angels in clouds ; below, left, SS. John Baptist, Sebastian, and Stephen ; right, the patron Jean Carondelet, knee-ling, and behind him St. Bernard and another aiint. Of the master's best time. Placed first by Jean Carondelet, archbishop of Pa- lermo, in his family chapel in S. Ktienne, Besam;on ; after his death (1544) cnme into cathedral. C. <k C., Italy, iii. 477. By Fra liart<ilvmm<-<>, Naples Museum ; wood, arched, figures life size. The Virgin, rising to heaven, rests one foot on the head of a little angel whose hands ore crossed under his chin ; below, SS. John and Cath- erine of Alexandria, the latter holding a palm, kneel at her tomb, which is filled with flowers. Painted in 151G for S. M. in Cas- 73
