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Quaglio

painter, munich, born, left and painting

QUAGLIO, kwitlyti. An Italian-German fam ily of artists, originally from Labia, near Lake Como, and afterwards residents of Austria and Bavaria. The family produced several genera tions of painters, etchers, lithographers, and architects, all eminent in their respective branches. The earliest on record is Glum°, born at Como, 1601, who painted, in the manner of Tintoretto, many frescoes and altar-pieces in Vi enna, Salzburg, and Laibach and was ennobled by Emperor Leopold L—GIUSEPPE (1747.1828), born at Laino, was noted for his scene paintings, and became Court architect at Munich (1801). He left four sons. all horn in Munich and his pupil.;.—ANGEL0 (1778-1815). painter and archi tect, is remembered especially for his masterly drawings for BoisserOe'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 ) , architec tural and landscape painter, was the most illus trious member of the family. After practicing painting scenery with rare skill in .11unieh 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 me difeval architecture. His numerous productions in that field bear witness to his thorough appre ciation of the famous Dutch masters in archi tectural 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" (1530), 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" (1530) and five others, and the Leipzig the "Minster at Freiburg" (1821). Of other examples may he pointed out the cathedrals of Cologne, Strassburg,, Rheims, and Rouen. and the picturesque views of Burg Eltz and the castles of Heidelberg and Holten schwangan. 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 &numlung merkiriirdiger Gcbiludc des Mitteialters in Deutschland (1810), Ansichten Gebiiude in Munchen (1811), and Deal:mitler der Baukunst des Mitt( tatters in Bayern (1816).— LORENZ (17103-1869) 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).—StmoN (1795-1878), pupil also of his brother Angelo, early exeelled as a scene painter, and was appointed Court theatre architect in I815.—His son and Mil, ANGELO the Younger (1829.90), followed in his footsteps, as did also his grandson, ECGEN (1557—).