McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Celesti, Cavaliere Andrea

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Celesti, Cavaliere Andrea


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a Venetian painter, was born in 1637, and studied under Ponzoni. His best historical works are in the Church of the Ascension, at Venice, of which the most esteemed is an Adoration of the Magi; and in the ducal palace a picture of a subject from the Old Test. He died in 1706. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Générale, s.v.; Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.