Ignazio Stern
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Ignazio Stern (or Ignaz Stern) (January 17, 1679 – May 28, 1748), born in
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in
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, was a
Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
painter who worked in Rome, dying there in 1748.


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.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 Ludovico Stern (October 5, 1709- December 25, 1777) was an Italian painter of the Rococo or late-Baroque period, active in Rome. He is known for both large sacred and history paintings, as well as still lives, and portraits. Biography Stern wa ...
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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