Ignazio Stern Explained

Ignazio Stern (or Ignaz Stern) (January 17, 1679 – May 28, 1748), born in Mauerkirchen in Austria, was a Baroque 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.^[1] He was the father of the painters Ludovico Stern and Veronica Stern.

Works

• Allegory of Spring, Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=136291;type=101
• Sts. Sergius and Bacchus and St. Basil, Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, Rome

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=1rw3AQAAMAAJ The History of Painting in Italy, from the Period of the Revival.