Agostino Aglio

Agostino Aglio (15 December 1777 – 30 January 1857)^[1] was an Italian painter, decorator, and engraver.

Engraving by Aglio, of the 1824 Ancient Mexico exhibition, a collection of New World antiquities organised by William Bullock.

The now demolished church of St Mary Moorfields, London: Aglio painted the panoramic fresco of the Crucifixion behind the high altar.

Biography

Grave of Agostino Aglio in Highgate Cemetery

He was born at Cremona. He initially studied at the Brera Academy under Giocondo Albertolli, and then traveled to Rome to work under Campovecchio Mantovano.^[2] In 1803 he came to England to assist William Wilkins, the well-known architect, in the production of his Antiquities of Magna Graecia which was published in 1807. For many years Aglio was employed in the decoration of theaters, churches, and country mansions both in England and Ireland. In 1819, he was employed, along with the architect Giovanni Battista Comolli, in painting vast frescoes for the Roman Catholic Church of St Mary Moorfields, London. Between the years 1820 and 1830, he published several books on art including a Collection of Capitals and Friezes drawn from the Antique and Antiquities of Mexico illustrated with over 1000 plates, drawn from the originals. He also painted a portrait of Queen Victoria, which was engraved.

A street in modern-day Cremona is named after the artist. He died on 30 January 1857 and was buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.

Notes

1. Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF). Retrieved on 2008-06-17.
2. Graselli, page 13.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 8.
• Ferrario, Giulio (1837). Aggiunte all'opera Il costume antico e moderno di tutti i popoli, cogli analoghi disegni (Enlarged and updated from the earlier edition published in Milan (1831–1834) under title Aggiunte e rettificazioni all'opera Il costume antico e moderno ed.). Firenze: V. Batelli. OCLC 5727536.
• Grasselli, Giuseppe (1827). Abecedario biografico dei pittori, scultori ed architetti cremonesi (in Italian). Milan: Co' Torchj d'Omobono Manini. OCLC 17416712.
• Marhenke, Randa (2003). "The Ancient Maya Codices". Maya Hieroglyphic Writing. Mesoweb. OCLC 53231537.
• Wason, Charles William (1831). "Art. VIII.— Antiquities of Mexico; comprising Fac-similes of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford: together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix, with their respective Scales of Measurement, and accompanying Descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited Manuscripts. By Augustus Aglio". The Monthly Review. From January to April inclusive, vol. 1. New and improved series. London: G. Henderson. pp. 253–274. OCLC 64054239.
• Whitmore, Sylvia D. (Spring 2009). "Lord Kingsborough and his Contribution to Ancient Mesoamerican Scholarship: The Antiquities of Mexico" (PDF online facsimile). The PARI Journal. 9 (4). San Francisco, CA: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute: 8–16. ISSN 1531-5398. OCLC 44780248.

External links

• 4 artworks by or after Agostino Maria Aglio at the Art UK site