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 mediocrity. His Last Supper and his Christ before Pilate are in the Venice Academy. Benedetto, whose specialty was architecture, was the principal painter of the architectural backgrounds in many of Paolo's pictures.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Bernasconi, 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, Vicenza, Murano, Brescia, and Treviso.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Baldinucci, ii. 321; Burckhardt, 750; Seguier, 34; Bernasconi, 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 softness 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 Magdalen, Pitti; Jupiter and Ganymede, Uffizi; Sibyl, Borghese, Rome; St. John the Baptist, Louvre; Jacob and Laban, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Magdalen, St. Jerome, Death of Cleopatra, Vienna Museum; Assumption of the Magdalen, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Malvasia, ii. 58; Lanzi, iii. 102; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise.

CAIN, Fernand Cormon, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 12 ft. 7 in. × 23 ft. The first murderer, pale and haggard, followed by his children covered with the skins of beasts, and bearing their mother on a litter, 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. 8-1/4 in. × 13-3/4 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; Passavant, ii. 315.

CAJESI. See Caxes.

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 Domenici. 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