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 themes, excelling especially in his rendering of horses. Casey died in Paris, December 27, 1885.

CASINI, Giovanni, called Varldnga, from the place of his birth in Tuscan}', was born in 1689. He was a portrait painter as well as a sculptor, and died in 1748.

CASOLANO, Alessandro, called also Alessan-DRO BELLA ToRRE, was bom at Siena in 1552, and was the pupil of Salimbeni and of Roncalli, under whose tuition he became a very reputable historical painter. His compositions are ingenious and copious, his figures well drawn and gracefully disposed. His works are principally in the churches of Siena, but are also to be found in Naples and Genoa. His own Portrait is in the Uffizi, Florence. It is no slight proof of this artist's merit, that Guido Reni, on seeing his picture of the ' Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew,' at the Carmelites, exclaimed, " Cestui e veramente pittore I ' He also etched one plate, a Madonna. He died in 1606.

CASOLANO, Ilario, is called Cristofano Casolano by Baglione, but Mancini, who was his con- temporary, and Lanzi, both call him Ilario. He was born in 1588, and, like his father, Alessandro Casolano, was a pupil of Cavaliere Roncalli. He assisted his father in some of his frescoes, and after his death finished that of the ' Assumption of the Virgin,' left imperfect by him. He painted several pictures for the churches in Rome, both in oil and in fresco, but was superior in the latter. The church of Santa Maria in Via contains a ' Trinity,' and that of La Madonna de' Monti some pictures from the Life of the Virgin and an ' As- cension ' by this artist. He died at Rome in 1661.

CASPAR, Joseph, who was born in 1799 at Rorschach in Switzerland, studied at Rome in 1815, at Berlin under Schadow in 1820, and at Milan under Longhi and Anderloni, when he gave himself up entirely to the art of engraving. He resided the greater part of his life at Berlin. Failing sight compelled him to relinquish his art in 1847, and he died in 1880. The following are some of his best plates :

St. Catharine ; after Raphael. The Colonua Madonna ; after the same. The Daughter of Titian ; after Titian (the Berlin Gallery picture). St. Barbara ; after Beltrafjio. Thomas of Savoy, Prince of Carignan ; after Van Dyck.

CASPARI, Heinrich Wilhelm, was born at Wezel in 1770, and became a pupil of the land- scape-painter Grypmoed. He painted a great number of excellent portraits, and died in 1829.

CASSANA FAMILY. Giovanni Francesco. 11611—1691.) GioTannl Agostino. Niccol*. Giovanni BattiEta. Slaria Vlttoria. (165S— 1-20.) (1068-1711.) ( ? —1711.)

CASSANA, Achate Giovanni Agostino, was an elder son of Giovanni Francesco Cassana and a brother of Niccol6; he was born at Genoa in 1658, and was instructed by his father. He painted portraits with some success, but preferred painting animals and subject pictures, in the style of Bene- detto Castiglione. His pictures of that description are found in the collections at Florence, Venice, and Genoa. He died at Genoa in 1720.

CASSANA. Giovanni Battista, was the youngest son of Giovanni Francesco Cassana. He excelled in painting fruit, flowers, and still-life.

CASSANA, Giovanni Francesco, was born at Genoa in 1611, and was the pupil of Bernardo Strozzi. He devoted himself to history and portraits, but was more eminent in the latter, of which he painted a great number at Venice, where he chiefly resided. He passed some time at the Court of Mirandola, where he painted a ' St. Jerome ' in the church, and other creditable works. He was the father of a family of artists, who all distinguished themselves. He died in 1691.

CASSANA, Maria Vittoria, was the daughter of Giovanni Francesco Cassana. She painted small pictures of religious subjects for private collec- tions, and her works are much esteemed. She died in 1711.

CASSANA, Niccol6, called Nicoletto, a son of Giovanni Francesco Cassana, was bom at Venice in 1659, and was instructed by his father in the rudiments of art. He excelled principally in por- trait painting, in which he became very eminent, although his historical pictures in the Gallery at Florence, of which the 'Conspiracy of Catiline' is the most esteemed, prove that he possessed great merit in that direction. He came to England in the reign of Queen Anne, whose portrait he painted, as well as those of several of the nobility. He did not live long to enjoy this success, but died in London in 1714.

CASSAS, Louis Francois, a French painter and architect, was born at Azay-le-Ferron (Indre) in 1756. After having studied under the younger Lagren6e and Leprince, as well as in Italy, he accompanied Choiseul-Gouffier to Constantinople and Lechevallier to the Troad. He then travelled through the Holy Land, Syria, and Egypt, collecting everywhere numerous drawings and plans, which served for the following publications : ' Voyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Ph^nicie, de la Palestine et de la Basse Egypte,' 1799 ; ' Voyage historique et pittoresque de I'lstrie et de la Dalmatic,' 1802; ' Grandes Vues pittoresques des principaux Sites et Monuments de la Grece, de la Sicile, et des Sept Collines de Rome,' engraved in outline by Cassas and Bance, with text by Landon, 1813. He was inspector and professor of drawing at the tapestry manufactory of the Gobelins, and was also the founder of the gallery of models of architecture of difEerent nations placed in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Cassas died at Versailles in 1827.

CASSEVARI, Giovanni Battista, was born at Genoa in 1789, and at an early age visited Florence, where he attended the academy of Benvenuti. After having taken part in the campaigns of 1813- 14, and been present at the battle at Paris, he returned to Turin and Genoa, and in 1824 went to Florence and Rome. In these cities he painted a great number of miniature portraits, and devoted himself to the study of the great masters. The portraits in oil afterwards executed by him in England are painted in the style of the Italian and Dutch masters. Buckner and Crispini were his pupils. There is by him in the church at Frosini a 'Madonna and Child.' He died in 1876.

CASSIANI, Padre Stefano, called II Certosino, was a native of Lucca, and flourished about the year 1660. He was called II Certosino, or the Carthusian, because he was a monk of that order. He painted in fresco the cupola of the church of the Carthusians at Lucca as well as two of its