by his principal officers, extends his hand to Porus, who, wounded, is sustained by three soldiers; in background, the battle-*field. Series of History of Alexander. Engraved by G. Audran (1678), D. Bertaux.—Landon, Musée, ix. Pl. 21-23; Filhol, iv. Pl. 265; Villot, Catalogue Louvre.
ALEXANDER AND ROXANA, MARRIAGE
OF. See Aëtion.
ALEXANDER IN TENT OF DARIUS.
See Darius, Tent of.
ALEXANDER AT TOMB OF ACHILLES,
Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican;
picture in grisaille, under the Parnassus,
at left. Alexander the Great, at right,
orders a bearded man to place the poems of
Homer in the sarcophagus, the lid of which is
raised by a youth; at each side, six soldiers.
Painted in 1511. Engraved by Marc Antonio,
and others.—Passavant, i. 119.
ALEXEJEFF, FEODOR JAKOVLEVICH,
born in St. Petersburg in 1753, died
there in 1824. Architecture and perspective
painter; pupil of St. Petersburg Academy,
by which he was sent to Italy. At first
painted flowers and fruits, but in Venice,
where he arrived in 1774, devoted himself
to perspective painting under Gaspari and
Giuseppe Moretti. After his return he was
official painter of decorations in 1779-87.
In 1795 he went to Southern Russia to
paint scenes visited by Catharine II. on her
tour in 1787. Under Paul I. he was employed
on decorative works. In 1803 he
became professor at the Academy. Works
in Moscow Museum.—Meyer, Künst. Lex.,
i. 287.
ALEXEJEFF, NIKOLAI MICHAILOVICH,
born in 1815. History, genre, and
portrait painter, pupil of Stupin. In 1836-40
he was at the head of the school at
Arsames, Government of Nizhni-Novgorod,
founded there by his relative Stupin in the
beginning of the century. Works: Egyptians
in Red Sea, Healing the Blind, Healing
the Leper, Marriage at Cana, Christ rescuing
Peter, Isaac Cathedral, St. Petersburg.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., i. 288.
ALFANI, DOMENICO, born in Perugia
in 1483 (?), died after 1553. Umbrian school,
son of Paris Pandari Alfani, goldsmith and
architect; pupil of Perugino at same time
with Raphael, who became his intimate
friend. Raphael invited him to Rome, but
Domenico preferred to remain in Perugia,
where he acted as Raphael's agent, and was
repaid by an occasional sketch. He became
a registered master in Perugia in 1510. In
1520 he legitimized his natural son Orazio
and took him into partnership, after which
they worked together. Domenico's earliest
production is a Holy Family (1510), Perugia
Gallery, painted after a drawing by
Raphael. His Madonna and Saints, dated
1518, in the Collegio Gregoriano, Perugia,
is thoroughly Raphaelesque. The Madonna
with two Angels (1521), in the Cathedral of
Città della Pieve, is painted in the same
style, but the Madonna and Saints of 1524,
in the Perugia Gallery, shows a change
from the Umbrian manner of his earlier
works to the bold treatment of the later
Florentines. This change is more marked
in a Madonna and Saints of 1532 in S. Giuliano,
Perugia.
In 1553 he
painted, with
Orazio, a Crucifixion,
in S. Francesco, Perugia.—C. & C.
Italy, iii. 364; Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 622;
Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 291; Burckhardt,
575; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.
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ALFANI, ORAZIO, born in Perugia about 1510, died in Rome in 1583. Umbrian school, son and pupil of Domenico Alfani, whom he frequently assisted. He was the first president of the Academy of Perugia, and many pictures there are attributed to him, such as a Nativity and a Holy Family. The one certain work by this artist is the Crucifixion with SS. Jerome and Apollonia which he assisted his father in painting (1553), or finished after his death.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 365; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iii. 624; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 293; Burckhardt, 575, 652.
