St. Christina looking up to heaven, surrounded by angels bearing the instruments of her martyrdom. A very lovely example of the Venetian religious school, but marked by want of originality. Painted in 1520 for the church where it still hangs.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 312; C. & C., N. Italy, i. 251; Burckhardt, 601.
CHRISTOPHSEN, PETER. See Cristus,
Petrus.
CHRISTUS CONSOLATOR, Ary Scheffer,
Fodor Collection, Amsterdam; canvas,
H. 6 ft. × 8 ft. Illustration of Luke iv. 18.
Christ seated upon clouds, with his arms
extended, offers consolation to the poor, the
blind, the broken-hearted, and those in captivity.
Salon, 1837; purchased by Duc
d'Orleans; his sale (1853), 52,500 fr. to M.
Fodor. Engraved by Henriquel Dupont.—Ch.
Blanc, École française; Gaz. des B. Arts
(1874), x. 565; Larousse, iv. 214.
CHRISTUS REMUNERATOR, Ary Scheffer.
Christ, standing, turned a little toward
the right, his feet bare, extends his arms
toward the good and the repentant sinners.
Painted in 1847. Engraved by A. Blanchard.—Larousse,
iv. 214.
CHRYSEIS, RETURN OF, Claude Lorrain,
Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11 in.
× 5 ft. Chryseis, or more properly Astynome,
daughter of Chryses, priest of Apollo,
had been taken prisoner by Achilles and adjudged
to Agamemnon, who was obliged by
the anger of Apollo to restore her to her
father. (Homer, Il., i. 10, 378). The ship in
which Ulysses has brought her lies in the
port; in foreground, sailors land goods, and
at left, animals for sacrifice; in second plane,
left, an Ionic temple, on the peristyle of
which Chryses, surrounded by attendants,
is receiving his daughter. Liber Veritatis,
No. 80. Painted for Prince de Liancourt,
from whom acquired by Louis XIV. Engraved
by D. Barrière (1654).—Pattison,
Claude Lorrain, 59, 241; Villot, Cat.
Louvre.
CHRYSOSTOM, ST. JOHN, MAJESTY
OF, Sebastian del Piombo, S. Giovanni
Crisostomo, Venice; canvas, figures life-size.
The Saint, attended by one of the
fathers, is seated in front of a palace, correcting
a book of homilies on his knee; on
one side SS. Mary Magdalen, Catherine and
Agnes; on the other, SS. John Baptist and
Liberale; background, rich landscape.
Painted in Venice in 1513; ascribed to Gio.
Bellini by Burckhardt.—C. & C., N. Italy,
ii. 312; Rosini, v. 224; Vasari, ed. Mil.,
v. 566; Burckhardt, 597; Kugler (Eastlake),
ii. 512.
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CHURCH, FREDERIC EDWIN, born
at Hartford, Conn.,
May 4, 1826. Landscape
painter; pupil
of Thomas Cole at
Catskill, N. Y., where
his first pictures were
painted. Elected N.A.
in 1849. Made sketching
tours in South
America in 1853 and
1857; later, on coast
of Labrador and in Jamaica, and in 1868
visited Europe and the Holy Land. Medal,
2d class, Paris, 1867. Studios in New York
and in Hudson. Visited Mexico in 1883.
Works: Andes of Ecuador (1855), William
H. Osborn, New York; The Great Fall—Niagara
(1857), Corcoran Gallery, Washington;
Heart of the Andes (1859), David Dows,
New York; Icebergs (1861), Sir Edward
Watkins, London; Cotopaxi (1862), Lenox
Library, New York; Chimborazo (1864),
William H. Osborn, ib.; St. Thomas in the
Vale—Jamaica (1866), Mrs. Samuel Colt,
Hartford, Conn.; Niagara (1866), Mrs. A. T.
Stewart, New York; Damascus (1869), William
Walter Phelps, ib.; Rainy Season in
the Tropics (1870), Mrs. M. O. Roberts, ib.;
Jerusalem (1870), T. M. Allyn, Hartford;
The Parthenon (1871), M. K. Jesup, New
York; El Khasna Petra (1872), Mrs. F. E.
Church, ib.; Tropical moonlight (1874),
William H. Osborn, ib.; Ægean Sea (1875),
William H. Osborn, ib.; Valley of Santa
Ysabel (1875), John Buckingham, Chicago;