Page:Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers, volume 1.djvu/505

 settled at Naples, wnere his jealousy was the cause of the ill-treatment which foreign artists had to endure. Domenichino especially suffered fearful persecution through his vindictiveness. He painted a few pictures in oil, but his power seems to have been better adapted to subjects that require to be executed in fresco, in which he is bold, varied, and occasionally beautiful and correct. His principal works at Naples were 'The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes,' painted in forty days for the Refectory of San Severino, and frescoes for the churches of San Patrizio, San Paolo Maggiore, San Marcellino, San Martino, and Sant' Annunziata. He died at Naples in 1643.

CORIOLANO, Bartolommeo, who is thought to have been the grandson of Cristoforo Corio- lano, was born at Bologna in 1599. He was first instructed by his father, but afterwards entered the school of Guido Reni, where he be- came an able designer and engraver on wood. He usually made use of two blocks for his woodcuts ; on one he cut the outline and the dark shadows, like the hatchings of a pen, and on the other block the demi-tints ; these he managed with great judgment, and his prints have a fine effect. His drawing is masterly and spirited, and his heads of a fine expression, characteristic of the great scheol in which he was educated. He worked at Bologna from 1630 to 1647, and was fond of developing the designs of Guido and Guercino. He dedicated a set of his prints after Carracci, Guido, &c. to Urban Vni., who recompensed him with the order of knighthood of Loreto, and a pension. He died in 1676. There are a few of his cuts executed in chiaroscuro, in which he used three blocks, which are signed with BC. sc. ; BC. EQ. SC; and

BART. COR. EQUES. F. The following are good examples of this master: .St. Jerome in meditation before a Cruci6x ; after Guido 1637. Herodia.s, with the Head of St. John the Baptist; after the same. The Virgin, with the Infant sleeping; after the same : in chiaroscuro. The Virgin and Infant Jesus, with St. John the Baptist ; after the same: in chiaroscuro. The Four Sibyls ; after the same. The Virgin and Infant sleeping ; after F. Vantii. Peace and Abundance ; after Guido. 1642. Jupiter hurling bolts at the Giants ; afttr the same ; on four sheets. 1647.

The Seven Ages, transported to Bologna ; a Thesis. Theresa Maria Coriolano. his daughter, was in- structed in painting by Elisabetta Sirani, and in engraving by her father. She etched a small plate of the Virgin, half-length, with the Infant Jesus.

CORIOLANO, Cristoforo, was a German en- graver, bom at Nuremberg in 1540. Heineckcn states that the family name of this artist was Le- DERER, which he exchanged in Italy for that of Coriolano. He engraved on wood, and was a very able artist. In the Life of Marc- Antonio, Vasari assures us that ' Maestro Cristofano,' after executing at Venice an infinite number of fine things, engraved on wood the portraits of the painters, sculptors, and architects, after Vasari' s designs, for his 'Lives of the Painters,' first published in 1568. They are very masterly performances, but Zani considers them to be the work of Christoph Chrieger. He also engraved the greater part of the figures in the 'Ornithology' of Ulisse Aldrovandi. He died at Venice in the beginning of the 17th century.

CORIOLANO, Giovanni BATTisTA,is believed to have been the son of Cristoforo Coriolano ; he was bom at Bologna in the year 1590, and died there in 1649. He studied painting under Giovanni Lodovico Valesio, but did not distinguish himself much as a painter, although he was employed for some of the churches at Bologna. In Santa Anna are two pictures of St. Nicholas, and St. Bruno ; and in the Nunziata an altar-piece of St. John, St. James, and St. Bernard. As an engraver, he is entitled to more consideration. He worked both on wood and on copper ; but his woodcuts are greatlj' preferable to his engravings. Those in chiaroscuro are dated from 1619 to 1625. Among his best works, which resemble in style those of F. Villa- mena, are the following :

PORTRAITS. Vincenzo Sgualdi. Fortunius Licetus. The same Portrait : a woodcQt. Joannes Cottuuius. SUBJECTS AFTER VARIOUS MASTERS. The Image of the Virgin ; J. B. Coriolanus, sc. The miraculous Image of the Virgin, painted by St, Luke, held by three angels ; after Guido. The Virgin and Child, and St. John ; after A. Tiarini. Christ crowned with Thorns ; etched in imitation of a woodcut ; after L. Carracci ; fine. Cupid sleeping ; in chiaroscuro ; after Guido. Triumphal Arch in honour of Louis XIII.; II Corio- lano, fee.

Twenty-seven plates for the ' Emblemata ' of Paolo Maccio ; the entire work consists of eighty-three plates ; the rest being by 0. Gatti and A. Parasina. He also engraved a number of theses and frontis- pieces. His plates were signed with liis full name, or B. C- F. ; Cor ; or Coi-io.

CORKOLE, AuGUSTE, a Belgian genre painter, was born at Ghent in 1822, and died in that city in 1875.

CORNARA, Carlo, was born at Milan in 1605, and became a scholar of Camillo Procaccini. He did not produce many works, but they were de- signed with an excellent taste, particularly his easel pictures, which were highly esteemed. One of the best of his public works is his picture of St. Benedict at the Certosa at Pavia. He died in 1673.

CORNEILLE, Claude, a French painter ai.d engraver, was a native of Lyons, who, during the reigns of Francis I., Henry II., Francis II., and Charles IX., enjoyed a great reputation for his portraits. They are usually of small size, and very pale in colour, and are often attributed to Jannet. Brantome, in his ' Memoires,' mentions with much praise a picture of Catharine de' Medici with her two daughters, and there is in the Lenoir collection at Stafford House a portrait of Louise Marguerite of Lorraine, Princess of Conty. A portrait of Francis I., attributed to Comeille, is in the Louvre. His engravings are slight, and betray the hand of a painter. Robert-Dumesnil gives a list of them in his ' Peintre-Graveur Fran9ais,' the best known being the 58 portraits of the French kings in the ' Epitomes des Roys do France,' printed at Lyons in 1546. Claude Comeille died after 1576.

CORNEILLE, Jean Baptiste, (called Corneille LE Jeune,) was a painter who was bom in Paris in 1649, and died there in 1695. He was a younger son of Michel Corneille of Orleans, and was in- stracted by his father, who sent him to Italy. After passing some years at Rome he returned to Paris, and was received into the Academy in 1675, the