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altarpieces at S. Francesco of Pirano in Istria, and of Pozzale near Cadore.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 627, 661; C. & C., N. Italy, i. 195; Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 539.


CARPENTER, FRANCIS BICKNELL, born at Homer, New York, in 1830. Portrait painter, pupil of Sanford Thayer in Syracuse. Professional life passed in New York; elected an A.N.A. in 1852. Works: David Leavitt (1852), American Exchange Bank, New York; Asa Packer, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania; Lieut-Gov. Woodford, Senate Chamber, Albany; Goldwin Smith, Cornell University; Prof. Gibbs, Yale College, New Haven; Horace Greeley, Tribune Association, New York; Gov. M. H. Clarke, President Fillmore, City Hall, New York; Abraham Lincoln (1874), Capitol at Albany; President Tyler, President Pierce, Wm. H. Seward, Chas. Sumner, and many others. His Emancipation Proclamation (1864,) is in the Capitol, Washington.


CARPI, GIROLAMO DA. See Girolamo da Carpi.


CARR, DAVID, born in England; contemporary. Landscape and genre painter. Exhibits at Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. Works: Weed Burners (1879); Watercress Gatherers (1880); À la Fontaine—Yport (1881); Cliff Ploughing, Violets (1882); Waiting, An Old-Fashioned Spring, At the Doors of La-Force—Paris, 1792 (1883).



CARRACCI, AGOSTINO, born in Bologna, Aug. 16, 1557, died in Parma, March 22, 1602. Bolognese school; son of a tailor, Antonio Carracci, who was cousin to Vincenzo, the father of Lodovico Carracci. Pupil of Fontana, of Domenico Tibaldi, and of Cornelius Cort, with whom he studied engraving, to which he devoted more time than to painting; afterward studied in Parma and in Venice, and on his return to Bologna (1589), opened the famous Eclectic school of the Carracci with Lodovico and Annibale Carracci. He aided his brother Annibale (1600), in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, where he painted the Triumph of Galatea and Cephalus and Aurora, of which his cartoons exist in the National Gallery, London; afterward went into service of Duke Ranuccio Farnese in Parma, where he died. Among his best works are the Communion of St. Jerome, Assumption, Bologna Gallery; Landscape with Bathers, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Infant Hercules, Louvre, Paris; Rinaldo and Armida, Naples Museum.—Malvasia, i. 263; Amorini, Vite, etc. (Bologna, 1840); Baldinucci, iii. 323; Wornum, Epochs, 320; Burckhardt, 699, 784, 794, 796, 808; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Dohme, 2iii.; Seguier, 39; Bartsch, xviii. 31.



CARRACCI, ANNIBALE, born in Bologna, Nov. 3, 1560, died in Rome, July 15, 1609. Bolognese school; brother of Agostino and pupil of Lodovico Carracci. In 1580 he went to Parma to study the works of Correggio and of Parmigiano; also visited Venice, and after seven years' absence returned to Bologna. He aided his cousin and brother in the academy which they founded there until 1600, when he accepted the invitation of Cardinal Odoardo Farnese to decorate the vaulted ceiling of a gallery in his palace in Rome. In this work, which occupied him eight years, he was assisted by his brother Agostino, and by Domenichino and Lanfranco. It represents various mythological subjects illustrative of celestial and