ALSLOOT ALSLOOT, DENIS VAN, born before 1628. Excellent landscape painter, Flem- ish school ; pictures very rare. Court painter to Archduke Albert, Governor of the Neth- erlands, about 1599. Works: Landscape (with figures by H. de Clerck), Vienna Museum ; Masquerade on the Ice, two pictures of Pro- cessions of Guilds in Brussels, Madrid Mu- seum; Castle and Park of Mariemont (1020), Brussels Museum ; Abbey of La Cambre (1009), NantesMuseum. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., i. 527 ; Viardot, 107 ; Michiels, Rubens, 347. ALT, JAKOB, born in Frankfort-on-the- Main, Sept. 17, 1789, died in Vienna, Sept. 30, 1872. Landscape painter, studied at Frankfort and, after 1811, in Vienna. Painted scenes in the Austrian Alps, on the Danube, in Upper Italy, which he vis- ited in 1828 and 1833, and Rome. Works : Isle of S. Giorgio Maggiore (1834), Vienna Museum ; Grave Yard at Hallstadt ; Garg- nano on Lake Garda. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., i. 532; Kuust-Chronik, viii. 20, xi. 345 ; Allgem. d. Biogr., i. 355. ALT, RUDOLF, born in Vienna, Aug. 28, 1812. Landscape and architecture painter, chiefly in water colours ; son and pupil of Jakob Alt and student at Vienna Academy. Has travelled extensively in Austria, Ger- many, Italy, Switzerland, and the Crimea. Is a member of the Vienna Academy. His few oil paintings are inferior to his water colours, which command high prices in Vienna. Works in oil : St. Stephen's Church (1832), Giardiui pubblici in Venice ( 1834), Vienna Museum ; Gate of Pi-ague, Venice, Well in Nuremberg. Water col- ours : Cloister Yard of Monreale, Harbour of Palermo, Arch of Titus in Rome, Castle Hollenegg, Well in Nuremberg, Bird's-Eye View of Danube, Old and New Vienna, Orvieto Cathedral, Milan Cathedral, Campo Vaccino, S. Marco in Venice, Coast near | Naples, DUrrenstein, Temple of Vesta, j His brother Franz (born 1821) went through same course of study and paints similar sub- jects. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., i. 533 ; M filler, 11 ; Wurzbach, L 15. ALT, THEODOR, Iwrn nt DOlilau, Bava- ria, Juno 23, 1840. Genre painter, pupil of Kreliug in Nuremberg, and of the Munich Academy. His pictures of subjects from modern life show great talent for composi- tion, feeling for nature, and harmonious colour. Meyer, Kim -I. Lex., i. 535. ALTAMURA, SAVEIUO, born at Foggia, Italy, in 1824. History painter, pupil of the Naples Academy, and one of the most distinguished Italian masters of modern times ; has painted since 1850 mostly in Florence ; in 1802 visited France and Eng- land. Favourite subjects, historical genre. Studio in Naples. Works: Origin of the Guelphs and Gliibellines in Florence ; Ma- rius Conqueror of the Cimbri (1801), Senate Chamber, Florence ; Old Hatred and New Love ; Madonna Enthroned ; Tasso in Sor- rento ; Salvator Rosa among the Robbers ; Doubt and Faith. Meyer, KUnst. Lex., i. 535. ALTARPIECE OF BRESCIA. See Br<-*- cia. ALTDORFER, ALBRECHT, born be- fore 1480, died at Ratisbou, Feb. 12 or 14, 1538. History and landscape painter, strongly influenced by Dilrer, possibly his pupil ; came from Amlx>rg to Ratisbon, was admitted to burgher rights in 1505, and afterwards elected alderman and city archi- tect. One of the most remarkable mastcrH of the Old German school. Works : Birth of Mary, Altai-piece with Christ on the Cross (1517), Augsburg Gallery ; Pietik, Madonna in Glory, Susanna at the Bath (1520), Land- scape with St George (1510), Battle of Ar- bela (1529), Pinakothek, Munich ; Altnq>ieco with SS. Narcissus and Matthew, Univer- sity, ib.; Christen the Cross (150C), Burg, Nuremberg ; St. Stephen before the Judge, Martyrdom of St. Stephen, St Quirimis lifted out of the Water, St. Jerome in Prayer, Maurice Chapel, ib.; SS. Francis and Jerome (1507), Landscape with Satyr Family (1507), Repose in Egypt (1510), Landscape with Illustration of Proverb (1531), Berlin Museum ; Madonna (1515), 31
