Ignaz Stern
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Ignazio Stern (or Ignaz Stern) (January 17, 1679 – May 28, 1748), born in Mauerkirchen in
Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
, was a
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painter who worked in Rome, dying there in 1748.


Biography

He was a pupil of
Carlo Cignani Carlo Cignani (; 15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well ...
in Bologna, and worked in Lombardy, then in Rome. He painted an ''Annunciation'' for the church of the Nunziata in
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. In Rome, he frescoed the sacristy of S. Paolino, and left some oil pictures in the church of S. Elisabetta.The History of Painting in Italy, from the Period of the Revival.
Volume 2, by Luigi Lanzi, page 309. He was the father of the painters Ludovico Stern and Veronica Stern.


Works

*''Allegory of Spring,'' Los Angeles County Museum of Ar

*''Sts. Sergius and Bacchus'' and ''St. Basil'', Santi Sergio e Bacco, Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, Rome


References

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