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 CAGLIAEI mediocrity. His Last Supper and his Christ before Pilate are in the Venice Acad- emy. Benedetto, whose specialty was archi- tecture, was the principal painter of the architectural backgrounds in many of Pao- lo's pictures. Ch. Blanc, Ecole venitienne ; Bernascoui, Studii, 336 ; Wornum, Epochs, 264. CAGLIARI, CARLO (Carletto), born in 1570, died in 1596. Venetian school ; elder son and pupil of Paolo Veronese, who, for fear that he would be but an imitator of his manner, sent him to study ' with Jacopo Bassano. After his father's death (1588), Carletto finished several works left incomplete by him, and he had begun to give promise of a great career when he died at the age of twenty-four. He worked generally in collaboration with his younger Brother Gabriele (born 1568, died 1631), and his uncle Benedetto. Several examples by him are in the Venice Academy ; works executed in collaboration are in the Palazzo Ducale and in several churches in Venice, stein Gallery, Vienna ; Magdalen, St. Jerome, Death of Cleopatra, Vienna Museum ; As- sumption of the Magdalen, Hermitage, St. . J ->; J Vicenza, Murano, Brescia, and Treviso. Ch. Blanc, Ecole venitienne ; Baldinucci, ii. 321 ; Burckhardt, 750 ; Seguier, 34 ; Ber- nasconi, Studii, 337. CAGLIARI, PAOLO. See Veronese. CAGNACCI, GUIDO CANLASSI called, born at Castel S. Arcangelo in 1601, died in Vienna in 1681. Bolognese school, pupil of Guido ; painted historical subjects in his master's style, exaggerating a little his soft- ness and affectation. His later pictures are inferior in colour to his earlier ones. He died in the service of the Emperor Leopold I. Examples : Tarquin and Lucretia, Accad. di S. Luca, Rome ; Assumption of the Mag- dalen, Pitti ; Jupiter and Ganymede, Uffizi ; Sibyl, Borghese, Rome ; St. John the Bap- tist, Louvre ; Jacob and Laban, Liechteu- Petersburg. Malvasia, ii. 58 ; Lanzi, iii. 102 ; Ch. Blanc, cole bolonaise. CAIN, Fernand Cormon, Luxembourg Museum ; canvas, H. 12 ft. 7 in. x 23 ft. The first murderer, pale and haggard, fol- lowed by his children covered with the skins of beasts, and bearing their mother on a lit- ter, flees, in the midst of storms, from before Jehovah (Victor Hugo). Salon, 1880. CAIN AND ABEL, SACRIFICE OF, Raphael (?), Signor Enrico Basseggio, Rome ; wood, H. 8J in. X 13} in. Abel kneeling on left beside an altar with hands raised in prayer as he sees a flame descending from heaven and firing the wood ; Cain, on the opposite side, vainly trying to blow his wood into a blaze ; a club in foreground prefigures the fratricide. Painted in Perugia in 1504- 05 (?). Said to have been in Aldobrandini collection, Rome ; later, in this century, in possession of Mr. Emerson, London. Panel injured. C. & C., Raphael, i. 202 ; Passa- vant, ii. 315. CAJESI. See Coxes. CALABRESE, IL CAVALIERE, born at Taverna, Calabria, Feb. 24, 1613, died in Malta, Jan. 13, 1699. Neapolitan school; real name Mattia Preti; pupil of Lanfranco in Rome, according to Baldinucci, and of Guercino in Cento, according to Dom- enici. He studied the great masters in most of the cities of Italy, and visited France, Spain, and Flanders, and finally Malta, where he executed many works. Generally chose