CYCLOPEDIA
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Painters and Paintings.
AAGAARD, CARL FREDERIK, born at Odense, Denmark, Jan. 29, 1833. Landscape painter, first instructed in his native place, then pupil of Copenhagen Academy, and in 1853 of P. C. Skovgaard. Visited Italy before 1871, and in 1875-76. Member of Copenhagen Academy in 1874. Works: Wild Flowers (1857); View in Jaegersburg Deer-park (1865), Copenhagen Gallery; Views on Island of Möeu.—Sigurd Müller, 3; Weilbach, 7.
AALST. See Aelst.
AARESTRUP, MARIE HELENE, born at Flekkefjord, Norway, in 1829. Genre and portrait painter; pupil in Bergen of Reusch, landscape painter, in Paris (1856) of Tissier, and in Düsseldorf of Vautier. Works: Playing Child and Shepherd's Boy, Art Union, Christiania; Interior of Hôtel Cluny in Paris, Flower Girl, Gothenburg Museum.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 2.
ABATE CICCIO, L'. See Solimena.
ABBATE (Abate, Abati), ERCOLE DELL', died Jan. 20, 1613. Lombardo-Modenese school; eldest son of Giulio Camillo, and grandson of Niccolò Abbate; worked mostly in Modena. Painted several Madonnas for the Modenese churches, also a Hercules and the Nemean lion; but principal work is a fresco of Labours of Hercules, executed in connection with Bartolommeo Schidone in the Palazzo Communale, Modena, parts of which still exist. In the Modena Gallery are four pictures of this master, namely, the Marriage (?), Annunciation, and Presentation of the Virgin, and the Birth of St. John Baptist.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 9; Vedriani, Pittori . . . Modenesi, 102.
ABBATE, NICCOLÒ DELL', born in Modena about 1512, died in Paris in 1570. Lombard school; son of a painter named Giovanni (died at Modena, 1559), but whether Abbate is the family name, or a patronymic derived from Abba or Abate, a village in the territory of Reggio, or was adopted by Niccolò in recognition of his master the Abate Primaticcio, is still uncertain, although it has been much discussed. He went with Primaticcio to France about 1531, and after several years returned to Italy and executed many works in Bologna and Modena; in 1551 or 1552, he again crossed the Alps to assist Primaticcio in decorating the Château de Fontainebleau, where, in 1570, Catherine de Médicis commissioned him to paint frescos of the Labours of Hercules, the Loves of Vertumnus, and incidents in the life of Alexander the Great. Niccolò also painted frescos after the designs of Primaticcio in the Hôtel de Guise, the Hôtel de Montmorency, and the Château de Beauregard near Blois
