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 CONTABINI— CORTE. 49 ti on as an effectiye master, especially in portraits. Works. Venice, Santacroce, the Cru- cifixion : San Francesco di Paola : and other churches. {Bidolji.) CONTE, Jacopiko del, b. at Flo- rence, 1510, d. at Rome, 1508. Tuscan School. Studied in the school of An- drea del Sarto, but resided chiefly at Borne. He painted many portraits and some historical pieces, in fresco and in oiL Works. Rome, San Giovanni De- collate, the Deposition from the Cross ; and St John Preaching: the Cappu- cini, Monte Cavallo, a Pieta; and St Francis receiving the Stigmata. {Bag- Hone.) CORENZIO, Cav. Bellisamo, b. 1558, d. at Naples, 1643. Neapolitan School. A Greek by birth ; he studied five years in the school of Tintoretto, at Venice, and afterwards, about 1590, settled at Naples. He followed in some degree the manner of the Carracci, but was more influenced by the style of Cara- vaggio and Tintoretto. He possessed extraordinary rapidity of hand and faci- lity of execution, especially in fresco, in which he executed vast works. He was the reputed head of that infamous cabal, or Neapolitan Triumvirate, con- sisting of Caracciolo, Spagnoletto, and himself, who had datermined to exclude or expel all able competitors from Naples, by any means fair or foul. He is said to have poisoned with his own hand his most able scholar; Luigi Ro- drigo. Corenzio himself was killed by a fall from a scaffolding. Works. Naples, Cappella de' Cata- lani in San Giacomo degli Spagnuoli, the ceiling: the Trinity degli Spag- nuoli, the Coronation of the Virgin; the Visitation ; and the Presentation in the Temple : at the Benedictines, the Feeding of the Five Thousand. {Do- minici.) CORONA, Leonabdo, b. in Morano, 1561, d. 1605. Venetian School. Studied the works of Titian and Tin- toretto, and copied the pictures of the former with such success that his copies have been mistaken for originals. His manner, however, resembles more that of Tintoretto than Titian's. Works, Venice, S.S. Giovanni e Paolo, the Annunciation : San Stefano, the Assumption. {Lanzi.) a CORRADO, GiAQDiNTO, b. at Mol- fetta, 1693, d. at Naples, 1765. Neapolitan School. One of the prin- cipal scholars of Solimena; distin- guished himself for his facility, espe- cially as a fresco-painter at Rome and Turin. He was invited to Madrid in 1753, and was made court-painter to Ferdinand VI., for whom he executed many works in oil and in fresco. There are sixteen of his pictures, from Bible and Church history, in the Gal- leryof the Prado, at Madrid. (Cean Bermvdez.) CORREGGIO. [Allegbi.] CORSO, Gio. ViNCENZO, 6. about 1490, d. about 1545. Neapolitan School. Studied under Gio. Ant Amato, the elder, and worked after- wards with Perino del Vaga in Rome : some of his paintings are in San Do- menico Maggiore, in San Lorenzo, and other churches at Naples. {Dominici.) CORTE, Cesabe, b. at Genoa, 1550, d. 1613. Genoese School. The son of Valerie Corte, who forsook portrait* painting for alchemy. Baldinucci pronounces Cesare Corte one of the best portraitpainters of his time, yet Lanzi says that he did not equal his father. He painted also historical subjects; and is said to have visited France and England, where Soprani states he painted the portrait of Queen Elizabeth: his principal works are at Genoa. He died in the prisons of the Inquisition, for having adopted the views of JjUther. Works. Genoa, Sta. Mai^a del Car-