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thumb|Baccus and Ariadne '''Ignazio Stern''' (or '''Ignaz Stern''') (January 17, 1679 – May 28, 1748), born in Mauerkirchen in Upper Austria in the Archduchy of Austria, was a Baroque painter who worked in Rome, dying there in 1748.
==Biography== He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani in Bologna, then in the Papal States. and worked in Lombardy, then in Rome, Papal States. 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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1rw3AQAAMAAJ The History of Painting in Italy, from the Period of the Revival.], Volume 2, by Luigi Lanzi, page 309.</ref> He was the father of the painters Ludovico Stern and Veronica Stern.
==Works== {{commons category|Ignaz Stern}} *''Allegory of Spring,'' Los Angeles County Museum of Art [http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=136291;type=101] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324231022/http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=136291;type=101 |date=2012-03-24 }} *''Sts. Sergius and Bacchus'' and ''St. Basil'', Church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, Rome
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