Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 1.djvu/336

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OEPHISODOEUS V CEPHISODORUS, painter, about 420 B.C. Mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. 36 [60]) as an able artist. Brunn, ii. 57. CEEEZO (Zerezo), MATEO, born at Burgos in 1635, died in Madrid in 1675. Spanish school ; son and pupil of Mateo Cerezo, a mediocre painter ; afterward scholar of Carrefio in Madrid, where he painted with consid- erable success during his short life. Painted chiefly religious compositions, choosing tender and agree- able subjects, such as Madonnas and Mag- dalens, rather than the ordinary sombre ones of the Spanish school. His best pict- ure, the Supper at Emmaus, is mentioned by Palomino as equal to works of Titian and Veronese. Works : The Assumption, and the Marriage of St. Catherine, Madrid Mu- A1 Cr e.z.o seum. Cean Bermudez ; Stirling, iii. 1032; Ch. Blanc, Ecole espagnole ; Madrazo, 386. CERMAK. See Gzermak. CERQUOZZI, MICHELANGELO, born in Rome, Feb. 2, 1602, died there, April 6, 1660. Roman school ; son of a jeweller, and for three years pupil of a Flemish painter in Rome ; then of Pietro Paolo Bonzi, called II Gobbo de Frutti, from whom he learned to paint fruit and flowers ; but he soon ap- plied himself to painting battle-scenes with so much skill that he was called Michelan- gelo delle Battaglie. Afterward he was sur- named "delle Bambocciate," because he imi- tated the Dutch painter Pieter van Laar, who was called in Rome II Bamboccio. Cer- quozzi painted with extreme facility, and generally without preliminary drawings. Among his best works are the Four Sea- sons, painted for the Palazzo Salviati, Rome ; Italian Masquerade, Louvre ; Battle Field, Dresden Gallery. Ch. Blanc, Ecole ombri- enne; Burkhardt, 768, 804; Seguier, 41; Lanzi, i. 486. CERVA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA, Lombard school ; flourished about 1550 ; pupil of Gaudenzio Ferrari, and master of Gio. Paolo Lomazzo. Lanzi speaks of his Incredulity of St. Thomas, in S. Lorenzo, Milan, as entitling him to high rank in his school. Lanzi, ii. 499 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole milanaise ; Lomazzo, Trattato, vi. cap. 37. CERVARO, GIRLS OF (Les Cervarolles), Ernest Hubert, Luxembourg Museum ; canvas, H. 9 ft. 5 in. x 5 ft. 9 in. Group of Women of theRomanCampagna, life-size. Salon, 1859. Colour study, H. P. Kidder, Boston, Mass. CESARE DA SESTO, born at Sesto about 1485, died in Milan after 1523. Lombard school ; one of the best scholars of Leonar- do da Vinci ; afterwards became intimate in Rome with Raphael, a double influence un- der which he painted the mannered Adora- tion of the Magi, Naples Museum ; and a large circular picture in the Vatican Gallery, Rome (1523). These pictures are inferior to his best and earlier works, the Baptism of Christ, Scotti Gallery, Milan ; and the Madonna with St. John, Melzi Collection, Milan. In this gallery there is also his large altarpiece of a later period, the Assumption of the Madonna, and in the Brera a charm- ing Madonna sitting under a laurel tree. Baldinucci, ii. 291; Lanzi, ii. 485 ; Burck- hardt, 708 ; Rio, iii. 209 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole milanaise ; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., ii. 447. CESARI, GIU- SEPPE, Cavaliere d'Arpino, born at Arpino in 1568 (or 1560?), died in Rome, July 3, 1640. Neapolitan school; called sometimes Giuseppino (Fr. Josepin, Little Jo- seph), and also H Marino de' Pittori, be- cause he was a corruptor in painting as

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