Czechoslovakian, 1872-1941  Related Paintings of Antonin Hudecek :. | Weaver near an Open Window (nn04) | The Voyage of Life:Youth (mk13) | Museem national Christ in the house the Pharisaers Simon | A single card game | Cap de fetita |
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Eduard Alexander Hilverdink
painted A snowy view of the Smedestraat, Haarlem in
J.J.Tissot
French 1836-1902
SACCHI, Andrea
Italian painter, Roman school (b. 1599, Nettuno, d. 1661, Roma).Italian painter and designer. He occupied an important position, midway between Annibale Carracci and Carlo Maratti, in the development of a more restrained, less decorative painting in 17th-century Rome, a trend that culminated in the 18th century with Pompeo Batoni. Sacchi trained with Francesco Albani, Carracci's student, and taught Maratti. His often expressed devotion to the art of Raphael and Carracci and his criticism of the views of Pietro da Cortona and Gianlorenzo Bernini made him, with Nicolas Poussin and Alessandro Algardi, one of the most significant representatives of a stylistic and aesthetic opposition to the more flamboyant, extrovert aspects of the High Baroque. Sacchi did not, however, share Poussin's passionate interest in Classical antiquity, nor was his mature work as cerebral. Yet his mature style, less richly coloured than his early manner and more restrained emotionally,