The New International Encyclopædia/Quaglio

QUAGLIO, kwä′lyō̇. An Italian-German family of artists, originally from Laino, near Lake Como, and afterwards residents of Austria and Bavaria. The family produced several generations of painters, etchers, lithographers, and architects, all eminent in their respective branches. The earliest on record is Giulio, born at Como, 1601, who painted, in the manner of Tintoretto, many frescoes and altar-pieces in Vienna, Salzburg, and Laibach and was ennobled by Emperor Leopold I.—Giuseppe (1747-1828), born at Laino, was noted for his scene paintings, and became Court architect at Munich (1801). He left four sons, all born in Munich and his pupils.—Angelo (1778-1815), painter and architect, is remembered especially for his masterly drawings for Boisserée's publication on the Cathedral of Cologne. Of his easel pictures, an “Interior of Saint Peter's in Rome,” and a “Gothic Church by Moonlight,” are in the New Pinakothek.—Domenico (1787-1837), architectural and landscape painter, was the most illustrious member of the family. After practicing painting scenery with rare skill in Munich from 1808 to 1819, he studied under Mettenleiter and Karl Hess and traveled extensively in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Italy to study and paint the most remarkable monuments of mediæval architecture. His numerous productions in that field bear witness to his thorough appreciation of the famous Dutch masters in architectural painting of the seventeenth century. Of the fourteen specimens in the New Pinakothek the “Interior of Saint Sebaldus at Nuremberg” (1816), “Villa Malta in Rome” (1830), the “Cathedral at Orvieto” (1831), and the “Views in Old Munich” are the most interesting. The National Gallery in Berlin contains the “Fish Market at Antwerp” (1830) and five others, and the Leipzig Museum the “Minster at Freiburg” (1821). Of other examples may be pointed out the cathedrals of Cologne, Strassburg, Rheims, and Rouen, and the picturesque views of Burg Eltz and the castles of Heidelberg and Hohenschwangau. Intrusted with the reconstruction and entire decoration of the last-named, he died there before his task was completed. He also left some rare etchings and published Sammlung merkwürdiger Gebäude des Mittelalters in Deutschland (1810), Ansichten merkwürdiger Gebäude in München (1811), and Denkmäler der Baukunst des Mittelalters in Bayern (1816).—Lorenz (1793-1869) was a genre painter of merry scenes from popular life, often combined with the grand surroundings of Alpine scenery, such as “Card Players in Tyrolese Inn” (1824, National Gallery, Berlin), “Target Practice in Tyrol” (Cassel Gallery).—{{sc|Simon)) (1795-1878), pupil also of brother Angelo, early excelled as a scene painter, and was appointed Court theatre architect in 1815.—His son and pupil, Angelo the Younger (1829-90), followed in his footsteps, as did also his grandson, Eugen (1857—).