Albani Francesco
Italian, 1578-1660
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was a distinguished artist of the Bolognese school, deeply influenced by Annibale Carracci's classicism, who worked in Rome as well as Bologna, painting altarpieces, frescoes and and cabinet pictures. His fame rests on his idyllic landscapes and small mythological pictures, Related Paintings of Albani Francesco :. | The Cupids Disarmed | Toilet of Venus | The Annunciation | ALBANI | La toilette de Venus or L'Air (mk05) | Related Artists: baron grimmGerman critic. He worked as a diplomat in Paris from 1749. Influenced by the Encyclopedists, he favoured the use of the Italian style in French operas (especially those of Rameau); in the Querelle des Bouffons of the 1750s he rejected all French music in favour of Rousseau, writing the satirical tract Le petit proph??te de Boehmischbroda (1753) and other works. He was a friend to the visiting Mozart family, 1763-4 and 1778.
Sir Edward Coley Burne-jones,Bart.,ARA,RWS1833-1898
Popova, LiubovRussian Constructivist Painter and Designer, 1889-1924
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