Aubigne, Theodore d’Agrippa d’ (1551-1630) French poet, soldier, polemicist, and historian of his own times After a studious youth at several European universities, Aubigne, an ardent Protestant, joined the Huguenot forces and served throughout the French religious wars, latterly as master of horse to Henry of Navarre. After Henry’s accession (1589) as henry iv and […]
Baldovinetti, Alesso (c. 1426-1499) Italian painter and mosaicist His work, which was mainly in and around Florence, is documented by his diary recording his commissions. Some of his paintings, such as the Madonna and Child in the Louvre, Paris, and the damaged Nativity fresco in SS. Annunziata, Florence, have attractive, if unsophisticated, landscape views of […]