his guards; above, the Trinity, with a choir of angels, to one of whom Christ gives the palm of martyrdom and a wreath for St. Agnes. Painted for S. Agnese, Bologna; carried to Paris in 1796; returned in 1815. Engraved by G. Audran; F. Rosaspina.—Landon, Musée, vi. Pl. 25; Pinac. di Bologna, Pl. 52; Lavice, 17.
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Martyrdom of St. Agnes, Domenichino, Bologna Gallery
AGNES, ST., MARTYRDOM
OF, Tintoretto, S. M. dell' Orto,
Venice; canvas. Much injured
by restoration.—Ridolfi, Marav.,
ii. 186; Zanotto, Guida,
328.
AGNOLO, ANDREA D'.
See Sarto.
AGOBBIO, ODERIGI DA.
See Oderigi.
AGRASOT, JOAQUIN, born
at Orihuela, Spain, contemporary.
History painter; pupil of
Academy S. Carlos of Valencia
and of Fr. Martinez. Works: A
Prestidigitator; La Feria de
Orihuela; Before the Bull Fight
(1880); Starting of the Procession
(1882); After Luncheon
(1883); Fortuny's Studio, J. H.
Stebbins, N. Y.; Monk and
Children, M. Graham, N. Y.—La
Ilustracion (1880), i. 291;
(1882), ii. 3; (1883), i. 259.
AGRICOLA, CHRISTOPH
LUDWIG, born in Ratisbon,
Nov. 5, 1667, died there, in
1719. Landscape and portrait
painter; German school. He
was a constant traveller in Germany,
England, Holland, and
France, but preferred to live in
Naples or Augsburg. He treated
landscape in the classical style under
Poussin's influence, and in his glowing atmospheric
effects resembles Claude. Works:
two Oriental Landscapes, Mountain View,
Portrait of Himself, Brunswick Museum;
two Landscapes with Figures, Cassel Gallery;
Thunder Storm, Rainbow, Sunset,
Pommersfelden Gallery; Landscapes with
large Rock, Millstone on Sled, Dresden Gallery;
Ruins of Monument, Vienna Museum;
Morning Dawn, Night, Rainbow, Landscapes
in Rain, Uffizi, Florence; others in
Naples, Bologna, Turin, Gotha, Frankfort,
Schwerin, and Breslau Galleries.—Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 567; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i.
137.