A
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
OF
PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS
SAAL, Georg Eduard Otto, landscape painter, born at Coblentz in 1818, studied at Diisseldoil under Schirmer, but went in 1848 to Heidelberg-, then to Baden-Baden, and in 1870 to Paris. He painted mountain scenery, and, later on in life, scenes in the Forest of Fontainebleau. He died at Baden-Baden, where he was court painter, in 1870.
SAAL, T., an indifferent engraver of vignette-; for books. He lived about the year 1672.
SAAR, Alois von, landscape and architectural painter, born at Traiskirchen, Lower Austria, in 1799, was a student at the Vienna Academy. He painted in oils and water-colours ; some of his works are in the Vienna Gallery. He died in 1840.
SAAVEDRA. See Del Castillo y Saavedua.
SABATELLL Francesco, history painter, born at Florence in 1803, was the pupil of his father, Luigi Sabatelli. He studied at Rome and Venice, but in 1823 was invited to Florence by Leopold IL, and became Professor of the Academy. He died at Milan in 1829.
SABATELLI, Giuseppe, painter, born at Milan in 1813, was a pupil of his father, Luigi Sabatelli. In 1834 he went to Florence, and became a Pro- fessor in the Academy. He painted portraits and historical subjects. He died at Florence in 1843.
SABATELLI, Luigi, the elder, history painter and etcher, born at Florence in 1772, studied at the Acadeuiy of that city under Pietro Pedroni. From 1788 to 1793 he was in Rome, and from 1795 to 1797 in Venice. In 1808 he was appointed Pro- fessor of the Academy at Milan by Eugene Beau- harnais. Of his works we may name :
Abigail before David ; in the Cliapel of the J'irgin at Arezzo. The Blessing of the Children ; in the Paroni Palace at Genoa. Heliodorus driven from the Temple. Portrait of the Artist himself. The Four Great Prophets ; in St. Gaudenzio, JS'ovara. The Olympic Games ; in the Pitti Palace in Florence. The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche ; in the Busca Ser-beUoni Palace in Milan. The Adoration of God through Prophets and Patriarchs ; in the Church of Valmadrera at Lecvo. Three Sceues from the Life of Galileo. The Triumph of Cupid ; in the Villa Giontini at Florence. The Corouatiou of the Virgin ; in S. Firenze in Florence. The Plague of Florence. [Etchiny.) The Visions of the Apocalypse. (Do). In many of his frescoes he was assisted by his son Luigi Sabatelli, the younger. He died at Milan in 1850.
SABATERII, Pierre, a skilful glass-painter, of the 13th century, practising at Montpellier about 1298. He decorated the cathedral with fine paintings on glass, which were much admired for their excellent composition and brilliant colour. His son Laurent succeeded his father in his practice, and was an artist of much merit.
SABBATINI, Andrea, (Sabatini.) called Da Salerno, a painter, was born, at Bologna about 1480. He was the son of a wealth}- merchant, who, finding his son had a taste for art, took him to Naples, and placed him under the tuition of Raimo Epifanio, a painter of little celebritji, under whom he studied some time. He is then said to have obtained his father's permission to visit Perugia, to profit by the lessons of Perugino. On his journey he encountered some artists, who were so loud is their praise of Raphael, that Andrea digressed into that painter's atelier, and in a short time was found of sufficient ability to be intrusted by Raphael to execute, from his designs, some of the frescoes in the Vatican and in S. Maria della Pace, It is also said that while prosecuting his studies under Raphael, he was recalled to Salerno by the illness of his father, who died soon after his arrival. The whole of this Roman tale rests, however, on the unsupported evidence of the untrustworthy De' Dominici. So far as the facts are surely known, Sabbatini worked only at Naples, where he was soon regarded as the ablest artist of the school. His frescoes in S. Maria della Grazie have been, for the most part, destroyed by alterations made in that church, but those in the vestibule of the inner court of S. Gennaro dei Poveri still exist. Other works are: Naples.
Brancacci ^^ Assumption of the Virgin. Chapel, Diiomo. J Museum. Salerno, iS. Spirito di Palazzo. The Adoration of the Magi, iS', Uomenico May- The Madonna and Eambino, giore. j with St, Elisabeth and other Saints, Descent from the Cross, Adoration of the Magi. Miracle of St. Nicholas of Bari. St, Benedict enthroned among Six Saints, Two Scenes from the Life of St. Placidus, A Pieti, Ditomo.
Sabbatini died at Gaeta in 1545.
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