Andreani, Andrea

Andreani, Andrea a Mantuan painter and engraver, was born, according to Brulliot, in 1560; by others he is supposed to have been born in 1540. He is little known as a painter. The following are a few of his principal works: Pharaoh's Host Destroyed in the Red Sea and. the Adoration of the Magi, after Parmigiano (1585): — the Virgin and Child, with St. John presenting a bird and a female saint holding a lily, after Giacomo Ligozzi: — Christ Curing the Leper and Christ Curing the Paralytic, after Franco de Nauto da Sabaudia: — and The Triumph of the Church.