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 COSTA— CRESPI. 61 San Yinceczo, at Modena, is his principal work. (Lanzi.) COSTANZI, PiAciDO, 6. at Rome, 1688, d. 1759. Boman School. An historical painter of reputation, the pupil of Benedetto Luti; he also inserted small figures in the land- scapes of Orizzonte with great taste. He painted in fresco the Tribune in Santa Maria, in Campo Marzio ; and a Raising of Tabitha, worked in mosaic for St Peter's ; the picture is in Santa Maria degli Angeli, at Borne. (Pas- coli.) COTIGNOLA, Francesco da, lived in Parma, in 1518. Bolognese School. A pupil of Niccolo Rondinello. Vasari commends him for his pleasing colour- ing. He was assisted by his brother Bernardino. Works. Parma, at the Osservanti, a Madonna and Saints. Faenza, Baptism of Christ. Classe, Raising of Lazarus. {Jjanzi.) COTIGNOLA, GnioLAMO Marchesi DA, b. about 1480, d. 1550. Bolognese School. A pupilof Francesco Francia, and, says Vasari, an excellent portrait- pednter : he painted also historical subjects in the ordinary taste of the fifteenth century, though he is said to have studied the works of Raphael in B.ome. Works. Bologna, Academy, the Sposalizio, with many figures. Berlin Gallery, St. Bernard explaining the rules of his order ; the Marriage of the Virgin. COZZA, Fbancesco, b. at Istilo in Calabria, 1605, d. 1682. Roman School. He was the friend and pupil of Domenichino, and completed some of the works which that painter left unfinished at his death. In the church of Santa Francesca Romana, at Rome, is his picture of the Madonna del Riscatto, pronounced by Lanzi his master-piece. CREDI, LoBENZo Di, b. at Florence, ]453, living 1536. Tuscan School. He studied under Andrea Verropchio with Leonardo da Vinci and Pietro Perugino. Credi followed more the style of Leonardo than that of his master: his original subjects consist chiefly of tranquil Madonnas and Holy Families, executed in a simple graceful taste. The execution is exquisite and the colouring beautiful. The Adoration of the Shepherds, in the Academy at Florence, though in the style of the good quattrocento masters, is an excel- lent work for any time or school. It is one of the best works in that excels lent collection, whether in expression, in colouring, or in the execution of the principal or accessory parts : it was for- merly in the monastery of Santa Chiara. Verrocchio made Lorenzo his principal heir, and expressed a wish that he might be commissioned to complete the unfinished monument of Bartolo- meo Colleoni, at Venice. Works. Florence, the Ufl&zj, the Madonna adoring the Infant Christ, and several other sacred subjects. Academy, the Nativity; the Adoration of the Shepherds. Pistoja Cathe- dral, Madonna and Saints. Berlin Gallery, the Adoration of the Magi; and three other sacred subjects. Louvre, the Madonna and Child, with Saints Julian and Nicolas, noticed by Vasari as Lorenzo's best work. ( Vasari, Gaye.) CREMONINI, Gio. Battista, b. at Cento, about 1550, d.Sit Bologna, 1610. Bolognese School. He painted re- ligious subjects in fresco for churches, and architectural prospects and orna- ments for houses with equal skill, and on an equally extensive scale ; he also represented wild and other animals, and with great ability. Works. Bologna, San Francesco, the Annunciation ; and the death of St. Frances. {Malvasia.) CRESPI, Cav. Giuseppe Mabia, E 2