Ignazio Stern
Ignazio Stern (or Ignaz Stern) (January 17, 1679 – May 28, 1748), born in Mauerkirchen in Austria, was a Baroque painter who worked in Rome, dying there in 1748.
Baccus and Ariadne
Biography
He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani in Bologna, and worked in Lombardy, then in Rome. He painted an Annunciation for the church of the Nunziata in Piacenza. In Rome, he frescoed the sacristy of S. Paolino, and left some oil pictures in the church of S. Elisabetta.[1] He was the father of the painters Ludovico Stern and Veronica Stern.
Works
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- Allegory of Spring, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Sts. Sergius and Bacchus and St. Basil, Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, Rome
References
- The History of Painting in Italy, from the Period of the Revival., Volume 2, by Luigi Lanzi, page 309.
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