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Battle of the Amazons, Rubens, Munich Gallery.

Music (1860); Servant Maid Smoking, Servant Maid Drinking (1863); Ophelia, The Widow's Comfort (1878); Reading Werther (1870), National Gallery, Berlin; replica, Raczynski Gallery, ib.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 599; Müller, 12; Rosenberg, Berlin Malersch., 71.


AMBERGER, CHRISTOPH, born in Amberg, Ulm or Nuremberg, about 1490 or 1500, died in Augsburg in 1561 or 1562. German school; portrait painter, perhaps pupil of Hans Burgkmair, and one of the best masters of the sixteenth century. Received into Augsburg guild in 1530, and appears there until 1560; was in Italy about 1535. Works: Portraits of Wm. Mörz and Afra Rehm (1533), of Konrad Peutinger and Wife (1543), Maximilians Museum, Augsburg; Altar with Madonna (1554), Cathedral, ib.; Christ with the Wise and Foolish Virgins (1560), Transfiguration of Christ, St. Ann's, ib.; Afra Rehm and Male Portrait (1533), Archeological Museum, Stuttgart; Trinity, Madonna Enthroned, St. Roch in a Landscape, Pinakothek, Munich; Hieronymus Sulczer (1542), Gotha Gallery; Portrait of Old Man, Wörlitz Gallery; Portrait of Charles V. (1532), Sebastian Münster, Georg von Freundsberg, St. Augustine, Berlin Museum; Duke Louis of Bavaria (1540), Martin Weiss (1544), Male and Female portrait (erroneously called Thomas Morus and Wife), Male Bust-portrait, Vienna Museum; do. (attributed to Holbein), Uffizi, Florence; Portrait of Charles V. (1532, attributed to Holbein), Siena Academy; Matthaus Schwartz and Wife (1542), formerly in Baron von Friesen's Collection, Dresden.—Allgem. d. Biog., i. 390; Kunst-Chronik, ix. 190; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 600; W. & W., ii. 452.


AMBROGIO DA FOSSANO. See Borgognone.


AMBROGIO DI LORENZO. See Lorenzetti.


AMBROGIO DA SIENNA. See Lorenzetti.