Jan. 5, 1578. Lombard school. Real name Glovicic; sometimes called Il Macedone, because his family was said to have originated in Macedonia. Pupil of Giulio Romano, at Mantua, and of Girolamo dai Libri, from whom he learned the art of illuminating. Went to Hungary in the service of Louis II., on whose death in 1526 he returned to Italy. During the sack of Rome (1527) he was so ill-treated by the Spanish soldiers that he vowed to take holy orders if he escaped. Afterward entered the monastery of San Rufino, Mantua, but left in a few years on a dispensation from the Pope, and entered the service of Cardinal Grimani, and on his death, that of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese; became the best Italian miniature painter of his time; executed a great number of works, some of which are described by Vasari. His Office of the Virgin, with twenty-six miniatures now in the library of the Naples Museum, cost him nine years' labour. Other works: Crucifixion, Uffizi; Pietà, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.—Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 330, vii. 557; Lanzi, ii. 337; Ch. Blanc, École lombarde; Waagen, i. 208, ii. 63, 334, iii. 431; Burckhardt, 682.
CLOVIS, ENTRY OF, Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury,
Versailles Museum; canvas, H.
2 ft. 7 in. × 3 ft. Triumphal entry into Tours.
Clovis, to whom the Emperor Anastasius
had decreed consular honours, put on the
purple tunic and the chlamys and placed
the crown on his head in the cathedral;
then, having mounted his horse, he rode
through the streets scattering with his own
hand gold and silver among the people.
CLUYSENAAR, ALFRED, born in Brussels,
Sept. 24, 1837. History and genre
painter; pupil of Brussels Academy, and in
Paris of the École des Beaux Arts and of
Cogniet; visited Italy, Holland, and Germany.
Medal, Paris, 1878; L. of Honour,
1878. Order of Leopold. Works: Henry
IV. at Canossa (1878); in fresco: The Age
of the Roman Empire, Foundation of the
Christian Dogma, Contest of Papacy against
Secular Rule, Reformation and Renaissance,
The French Revolution, University of Ghent.—Müller,
108.
CLYTEMNESTRA, ancient picture. See
Tauriscus, Theon.
By P. N. Guérin, Louvre; canvas, H. 11 ft. 3 in. × 10 ft. 8 in.; signed, dated 1817. Clytemnestra, dagger in hand, hesitating on the threshold of the apartment in which Agamemnon is seen asleep, is urged forward by Ægisthus, who pushes her by the shoulders. Salon, 1817; acquired in 1819 for 12,000 fr. Engraved by A. Johannot; Sisco.—Réveil, x. 677.
COBERGHER, (Coeberger,) WENCESLAS,
born in Antwerp about 1560, died
in Brussels in 1635. Flemish school;
history painter; pupil of Martin de Vos,
1573, from whose studio he went to Italy in
1579; lived in Rome and Naples; returned to
Antwerp in 1603, where he then entered
the guild. Called to Brussels by Archduke
Albert, who entrusted him with all manner
of work, Cobergher being also an architect
and engineer. Works: Constantine adoring
the Cross, St. Jacob's, Antwerp; Entombment,
Brussels Museum; Pietà, St. Andrew's,
Antwerp.—Biog. nat. de Belgique,
iv. 214; Michiels, viii. 326; Rooses (Reber),
154; Ch. Blanc, École flamande.
COCCHI, POMPEO, of Perugia; Roman
school (1523-1549); contemporary of Domenico
Alfani, and almost his equal. On
register of guild in 1523. A Madonna with
Saints in Cathedral of Perugia is signed and
dated 1525. A Crucified Saviour in the
Perugia Gallery, part of a fresco transferred
to canvas, recalls the Florentine manner of
the followers of Fra Bartolommeo, still with
a prevailing Umbrian feeling. Cocchi made
his will in 1544, and was still alive in 1549.
C. & C., Italy, iii. 371; Ch. Blanc, École
ombrienne.
COCK, CÉSAR DE, born in Ghent in
1823. Landscape painter. Medals, Paris,
1867, 1869. Works: Old Mill (1857); Hedge
Corner (1859); Farm-yard (1865); Old Mill
at Veules, Herring Box (1866); Poplars
(1867); Upon the Heath, In the Woods
