APPIANI, ANDREA (1754-1817), the best fresco paint er of his age, was born at Milan. He was made pensioned artist to the kingdom of Italy by Napoleon, but lost his allowance after the events of 1814 and fell into poverty. His best pieces, which are in the church of Santa Maria presso San Celso and the 'From Beneventum he followed the Via Appia to Aeclanium: thence, leaving the main road, he went to the left to Ausculum ("quod versu dicere non est," i.e., which will not go into a hexameter) , the mod. Ascoli Satriano, by a by-road, later called Via Aurelia Aeclanensis, and on to Herdoniae, where he joined the line of the later Via Traiana.
royal palace at Milan, almost rival those of his great master Correggio. He is known as "the elder," to distinguish him from his great-nephew Andrea Appiani (1817-65), an historical paint er at Rome. Other painters of the same name were Niccolo Appiani 151o) and Francesco Appiar.i (1704-1792).