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ALEXAS
ALEXAS (Greek). Gem-engraver. The Brit. Museum possesses a fragment of a cameo on which figures a hippocamp, a type copied from Greek coins. Alexas had two sons, Aulus and Quintus, who both distinguished themselves in the glyptic art. The same signature appears also on a sard, now in Berlin, Bull butting; — Head of Sarapis (Raspe) ; — and with the addition of EMOEI on a burnt sard, showing a Lion in his den. Some of ...

ALEXEJEFF, BASILE VLADIMIROWITCH
ALEXEJEFF, BASILE VLADIMIROWITCH (Russ.). Born in 1823, died in 1881. Son of the Medallist Vladimir Alexejeff. He received his education at the Technical Mining School attached to the Technological Institute at St. Petersburg, and entered the Mint in 1845 as Medal-engraver. In 1871 he was appointed Professor at the Russian Academy of Arts. Among the medals engraved by him the following are the best known : Portrait ...

ALEXEJEFF, VLADIMIR EPHRAIMOWITCH
ALEXEJEFF, VLADIMIR EPHRAIMOWITCH (Russ.) 1784-1832. He entered the St. Petersburg Mint in 1801 to learn engraving, and in 1805 was promoted to the position of Medallist, on account of his success and artistic achievements. The following medals are also by this artist : Coronation of Nicholas I. ; — Peace of Adrianople, 1825 (R. by Klepikow) ; — Death of Czarina Alexandra Feodorowna ; — Dedication of the Isaac Cathed...

ALGARDI, ALESSANDRO
ALGARDI, ALESSANDRO (Ital.). An Artist of the first half of the seventeenth century, born at Bologna in 1593, died a Rome in 1654. After having learned the art of drawing from Caracchio, he first exercised modelling in clay, and some of his medallions, studies of children's heads, &c, are very graceful. Called to Rome, he was there entrusted with various commissions in sculpture and architecture, and was created a kn...