CYCLOPEDIA
OF
Painters and Paintings.
AAGAARD, CARL FREDEEIK, 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 Moen. — Sigurd Muller, 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 Diisseldorf of Vautier. Works : Playing Child and Shepherd's Boy, Art Union, Christiania ; Interior of Hotel Cluny in Paris, Flower Girl, Gothenburg Museum. — Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., i. 2.
ABATE CICCIO, L'. See Solimena.
ABBATE (Abate, Abati), ERCOLE DELL', died Jan. 20, 1613. Lorabardo-Mo- denese school ; eldest son of Giulio Camillo, and grandson of Niccolo Abbate ; worked mostly in Modena. Painted several Ma- donnas for the Modenese churches, also a Hercules and the Nemean lion ; but princi- pal work is a fresco of Labours of Hercules, executed iu connection with Bartolommeo Schidone in the Palazzo Communale, Mo- dena, parts of which still exist. In the Mo- dena Gallery are four pictures of this master, namely, the Marriage (?), Annunciation, and Presentation of the Virgin, and the Birth of St. John Baptist. — Meyer, Kunst. Lex., i. 9 ; Vedriani, Pittori . . . Modenesi, 102.
ABBATE, NICCOLO DELL', born in Modena about 1512, died in Paris in 1570. Lombai'd 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 Niccolo in recognition of his master the Abate Primaticcio, is still uncer- tain, 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 Chateau de Fontainebleau, where, in 1570, Catherine de Medicis com- missioned him to paint frescos of the La- bours of Hercules, the Loves of Vertum- nus, and incidents in the life of Alexander the Great. Niccolo also painted frescos after the designs of Primaticcio in the Hotel de Guise, the Hotel de Montmorency, and the Chateau de Beauregard near Blois.
