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 CEPHISODORUS, painter, about 420 b.c. Mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. 36 [60]) as an able artist.—Brunn, ii. 57.

CEREZO (Zerezo), MATEO, born at Burgos in 1635, died in Madrid in 1675. Spanish school; son and pupil of Mateo Cerezo, a mediocre painter; afterward scholar of Carreño in Madrid, where he painted with considerable success during his short life. Painted chiefly religious compositions, choosing tender and agreeable subjects, such as Madonnas and Magdalens, rather than the ordinary sombre ones of the Spanish school. His best picture, the Supper at Emmaus, is mentioned by Palomino as equal to works of Titian and Veronese. Works: The Assumption, and the Marriage of St. Catherine, Madrid Museum.—Cean Bermudez; Stirling, iii. 1032; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Madrazo, 386.

CERMAK. See Czermak.

CERQUOZZI, MICHELANGELO, born in Rome, Feb. 2, 1602, died there, April 6, 1660. Roman school; son of a jeweller, and for three years pupil of a Flemish painter in Rome; then of Pietro Paolo Bonzi, called Il Gobbo de Frutti, from whom he learned to paint fruit and flowers; but he soon applied himself to painting battle-scenes with so much skill that he was called Michelangelo delle Battaglie. Afterward he was surnamed "delle Bambocciate," because he imitated the Dutch painter Pieter van Laar, who was called in Rome Il Bamboccio. Cerquozzi painted with extreme facility, and generally without preliminary drawings. Among his best works are the Four Seasons, painted for the Palazzo Salviati, Rome; Italian Masquerade, Louvre; Battle Field, Dresden Gallery.—Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Burkhardt, 768, 804; Seguier, 41; Lanzi, i. 486.

CERVA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA, Lombard school; flourished about 1550; pupil of Gaudenzio Ferrari, and master of Gio. Paolo Lomazzo. Lanzi speaks of his Incredulity of St. Thomas, in S. Lorenzo, Milan, as entitling him to high rank in his school.—Lanzi, ii. 499; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise; Lomazzo, Trattato, vi. cap. 37.

CERVARO, GIRLS OF (Les Cervarolles), Ernest Hébert, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 9 ft. 5 in. × 5 ft. 9 in. Group of Women of the Roman Campagna, life-size.—Salon, 1859. Colour study, H. P. Kidder, Boston, Mass.

CESARE DA SESTO, born at Sesto about 1485, died in Milan after 1523. Lombard school; one of the best scholars of Leonardo da Vinci; afterwards became intimate in Rome with Raphael, a double influence under which he painted the mannered Adoration of the Magi, Naples Museum; and a large circular picture in the Vatican Gallery, Rome (1523). These pictures are inferior to his best and earlier works, the Baptism of Christ, Scotti Gallery, Milan; and the Madonna with St. John, Melzi Collection, Milan. In this gallery there is also his large altarpiece of a later period, the Assumption of the Madonna, and in the Brera a charming Madonna sitting under a laurel tree.—Baldinucci, ii. 291; Lanzi, ii. 485; Burckhardt, 708; Rio, iii. 209; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 447.

CESARI, GIUSEPPE, Cavaliere d'Arpino, born at Arpino in 1568 (or 1560?), died in Rome, July 3, 1640. Neapolitan school; called sometimes Giuseppino (Fr. Josépin, Little Joseph), and also Il Marino de' Pittori, because he was a corruptor in painting as