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 Death of Cæsar, Camuccini, Palazzo Reale, Naples.

CÆSAR, TRIUMPH OF, Mantegna, Hampton Court; tempera on twilled linen; 9 pictures, each 9 ft. sq.; not properly cartoons, but intended to be stretched on frames and affixed to the wall as a frieze, in a continuous procession 81 ft. long, as now arranged. Represent a grand triumphal procession of Roman soldiers, captives, and spoils; lastly Cæsar in a splendid car, with a sceptre in his right hand and a palm branch in his left. Painted in 1485-92 for Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, to decorate the palace of St. Sebastian. Bought in 1628 by Charles I., together with statues and other pictures, for £10,500, and placed in Hampton Court. Valued at £1000 in 1651, but reserved by Cromwell and not sold, as often stated. They are now greatly dilapidated. Tapestries were wrought from these designs. Three of the series are at Boughton, Duke of Buccleuch. Other sets mentioned in the catalogue of effects of James II.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 404; Waagen, Art Treasures, ii. 410; Sainsbury, Orig. Papers, 321; Law, Hist. Cat. Hampton Court, 256; Evelyn, Diary, June 9, 1662; Geo. Scharf, Hist. of Old London, 352, 355; Passavant, Kunstreise durch England (London, 1883), 189.

CÆSARS, TWELVE, Titian, originals lost(?). Twelve canvases, eleven by Titian and one by Giulio Romano, painted in 1537-38 for Federico Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. In Sala di Troja in Castle of Mantua till 1628, when sold by Vincenzo Gonzaga to Daniel Nys, who shipped them to England; in collection of Charles I. till 1636, when presented to the Spanish ambassador in London; further history lost. Bernardino Campi made five copies in 1562, one of which, formerly in Palazzo del Vasto d'Avalos, is now in the Naples Museum. Copies by Agostini Carracci were in Palace of Parma till 1734. Engraved by Sadeler.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 442; Gaye, Carteggio, ii. 264; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 313, iii. 443; C. & C., Titian, i. 420.

CAGLIARI (Caliari), BENEDETTO, born in Verona in 1538(?), died in 1598. Venetian school; brother of Paolo Veronese, and his assistant in many of his works. After his brother's death he continued to paint, showing himself a faithful imitator of Paolo's manner, but he did not rise above