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 models for the better management of the chiaro- ecuro, and assisted him in his much -esteemed picture of the ' Annunciation ' in SS. Giovanni o Paolo, and his more admired work of the ' Assump- tion ' in San Stefano, painted with a greatness of style that approaches to Titian. In San Fantino is his picture, so much applauded by Ridolfi, of the ' Crucifixion,' in which he treads so closely on the heels of Tintoretto as to be little short of the excel- lence of that master. He died at Venice in 1605. It is said that he copied the works of Titian so exactl}-, that connoisseurs mistook his imitations for the originals. The Brunswick Gallery contains two paintings by him — 'Joseph and Potiphar's Wife,' and ' The Death of Lucretia.'

CORONATO. IL. See Calvi, Giclio.

CORONELLI, ViycEKZO Maria, an Italian geographer and draughtsman, was bom at Venice about 1650. He entered the order of the Minorites, and went to France, where he constructed the celebrated globes which are now in the National Library at Paris. On his return to Venice he was made cosmographer of the Republic, and founded the Academy of the Argonauts. In 1 702 he became general of his order. He died at Venice in 1718. Among other works he published ' Ritratti de' celebri Personaggi,' 1697 ; ' Lo Specchio del Mare,' 1698; 'Atlante Veneto,' 1691-96; 'Roma antico- moderna,'1716 ; and 'Singolarita di Venezia,' some of the plates in which he probably engraved.

COROT, Jean Baptiste Camille, was bom in Paris, of humble parentage, in 1796. After receiv- ing his education in the Lyc^e of Rouen, he was placed in a draper's shop. He did not follow his inclination till he was twenty-two, when he became a pupil of Michallon, then of Victor Berlin, and finally completed his studies in Italy. In 1827 he Bent two of his works to his first exhibition, and amongst those which succeeded them may be named : ' A View in Italy,' ' A Souvenir of the Environs of Florence,' 'The Burning of Sodom,' ' Evening,' ' The Lake,' ' An Idyll,' 'The Italian Tyrol,' 'A Souvenir of Marcoussj-,' &c. Besides these landscapes, he painted several figure sub- jects, such as : 'A Dance of Nymphs,' ' Ariadne,' ' Macbeth,' ' St. Sebastian,' ' Christ in the Garden of Olives,' ' Dante and Virgil,' and ' Hagar in the Desert;' the two last named being bequeathed by him to the Louvre. Corot's method was to work in the country in the summer, early and late, in the open air, to catch those efEects only to be seen at dawn, at sunset, and by moonlight, in which he delighted. During the winter he worked in his studio on the ideas thus afforded him. His originality was great: he saw and portrayed nature with his own eyes in a manner replete with poetry and fancy, in which style he has found followers in Troyon, Diaz, and others. In his early years he tad to contend with poverty, but in after life wealth flowed freely in on him, and he was never unmindful of the poor and struggling artist. It is computed that his benevolences during the siege of Paris in 1870 amounted to 25,000 francs. He received medals for his works in 1833, 1848, 1855, and 1867, and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1846, becoming an officer of the order in 1867. As a mark of their esteem for ' le pSre Corot,' his brother artists presented him with a gold medal shortly before his death, which occurred in Paris on the 22nd of February, 1875. He bequeathed to the Luxembourg two views — one of the Forum, the other of the Colosseum at Rome. The pictures, sketches, etchmgs, &o., remaining in his studio were sold for 400,000 francs. Two Land- scapes by him are in the Lille Museum, and one each in the Museums of Bordeaux, Douai, Metz, and Langres.

CORR, Eein, a Belgian line-engraver, was born of Irish parentage at Brussels in 1803. After studying under De Meulemeester, he went to Paris and completed his training under Wedgwood and Forster. On returning home he soon acquired a name by his engravings, and became in 1832 professor of engraving at the Antwerp Academy. He died in Paris in 1862. Among his best plates are :

Hagar in the Wilderness ; after Xaxez. 1832. The Saviour of the World ; after Leonardo da rind. Christ on the Gross; after fan Dt/ck. (His chef-d'oeuvre.) The Elevation of the Cross ; after Eubens. (Unfinished ; the etching onJy.) The Descent from the Cross ; after Rulens. (Unfinished.) The King of the Belgians ; after JVappers. 1834. The Queen of the Belgians ;" after Ary Scheffer. 1839. Cardinal Sterckx, Archbishop of ilechlin ; after Ceh.

CORRADI, KoxRAD, a Swiss landscape painter in water-colours, was bom in the earlj- part of the 19th century. He died at Uhwiesen in 1878.

CORRADINI, Babtolommeo, who is known as Fra Carnevale, was a Dominican monk living in the 15th century, who painted somewhat in the manner of Piero della Francesca. He was painting in Drbino in 1456, since records remain which prove him to have been then absolved from finishing a picture for the Confratemity of Corpus Cliristi in that city. In 1461 he was curate at San Cassiano di Cavallino, near Urbino, and seems to have lived there up to 1468. According to Padre Pungileone he painted the altar-piece of San Bernardino in the convent of that name in Urbino, in 1472. He died in 1484. Vasari asserts that he taught Bramante the art of perspective. A ' St. Michael and the Dragon ' in the National Gallerj-, and a ' Virgin and Child with Saints ' in the Brera, Milan, are ascribed to him.

CORRADO, GiAQuiSTO, a Neapolitan painter, was born at Molfetta, in 1693. He studied in his native town, and afterwards at Rome. In 1753 he was invited to Madrid by Ferdinand VI., and succeeded Amigoni as first painter to the king. He remained in Spain until 1761, and died at Naples in 1765. The Madrid Gallery has fourteen of his works — 3 allegorical, 2 landscape, 2 classical, and the rest sacred historical.

CORRALES. See Martinez de los Coerales.

CORREA, Dieqo, a Spanish painter, whose works are in the style of the Florentine school, flourished, according to the date on some of his pictures, in 1550. The following works, liis chief productions, now in the Madrid Museum, were formerly in the convent of the Bernardines of St. Martin at Val de Iglesias :

Pilate washing his Hands. Christ crowned with Thorns. Ecce Homo. The Death of St. Bernard. The Last Judgment. Madonna and Child and St. Anne. St. Benedict blessing St. Maurus. The Martyrdom of St. Andrew The Resurrection. St. Peter curing the Paralytic. Descent of the Holy Spirit. Descent from the Cross. The ' Assumption of the Virgin,' in the same gallery, was formerly in the church of tlie As-