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 CREATION de Paul (1884) ; Marie (1885). Bellier, i. 319. CREATION, Michelaiiyelo. See Adam ; Eve ; Sun and Moou ; Tree* and Plants. CREDI, LORENZO DI, born in Florence in 1459,died there, Jan. 12, 1537. Florentine school; son of Andrea di Credi, goldsmith ; pupil and assist- ant of Verrocchio at same time with Leonardo da Vinci and Perugino. ff Under Verroc- chio'a care he long laboured in copying either his master's or Leonardo's sketches, with such accuracy that Vasari says it was difficult to distinguish his work from the originals. ; Lorenzo followed Leonardo, and was but , slightly affected by Perugino. His works are all easel pictures, remarkable for careful } execution and minute finish. His favour- ite subject was the Holy Family. The best and oldest of his altarpieces is the Madonna and St. John the Baptist in the Duomo of Pis- toja, which is strongly reminiscent of Leo- nardo. His Madonna, Mentz Museum, is almost equally successful, as is the Holy Family, Palazzo Borghese, Rome. The Ma- donna with Saints, Louvre ; Baptism of , Christ, Ufiizi, Florence ; Nativity, Florence Academy ; and Madonna and Virgin adoring Infant Christ, National Gallery, London, | are also among the best ex-' amples of his - work C.&C., Italy, iii. 403 ; Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 563, 575 ; Burckhardt, 581, 622, 855 ; Ch. Blanc, cole florentine ; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., i. 368 ; ii. 37. CREMONINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, born at Cento (?), died in Bologna in 1610. Bolgnese school. Chiefly a decorative paint- j er. Painted some good historical subjects, I but is noted for his pictures of animals, real ! and imaginary. His Christ on the way to Calvary and Christ meeting St. Veronica, a single picture dated 1598, is iu the Bologna Gallery. Other examples in churches of Bo- logna, as, e.g., fresco, the Annunciation, ceil- ing of Sacristy in S. Martino Maggiore, and Coronation of the Madonna, lunette, staircase, S. Maria del Bosco. Malvasia, i. 225 ; Lanzi, iii. 53 ; Ch. Blanc, Kcole bolo- naise ; Gualandi, 50, 126. CRESCENZIO, ANTONIO, of Palermo, 15th century. Neapolitan school No rec- ords of him. His fresco, Triumph of Death, in the court of the hospital at Palermo, is a fanciful production which may have been suggested by that of the Campo Santo, Pisa. The figures are thrown together with- out much regard for appropriate distribu- tion, but are drawn with great minuteness of outline. It recalls the Sanseverini, to whom, however, Crescenzio was superior. C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 110. CRESPI, DANIELE, born in Milan in 1590, died there in 1630. Lom- bardo - Milanese school ; son and pupil of Gio. Battista Crespi (II Cerano); later studied under Giulio Cesare Procaccini; practised the maxims of the school of the Carracci and became famous, but was cut off, with all his family, by the plague. Several of his pict- ures, March to Calvary, Last Supper, Holy Family, Baptism of Christ, are in the Brera; others in churches in Milan, and in the Cer- tosa of Pavia. Lanzi, ii. 520 ; Ch. Blanc, ficole milanaise ; Burckhardt, 765 ; Lavice, Revue des Musees d'ltalie (Paris, 1862). CRESPI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, called