Ignazio Stern (1679 – 1748)

• Was born in Mauerkirchen in Austria.
• Stern was a Baroque painter who worked in Rome, dying there in 1748.

• He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani in Bologna.

• He worked in Lombardy, then in Rome. 

• He painted an Annunciation for the church of the Nunziata in Piacenza.

• In Rome, he frescoed the sacristy of S. Paolino, and left some oil pictures in the church of S. Elisabetta.

• He was the father of the painters Ludovico Stern and Veronica Stern. 

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