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 de Paul (1884); Marie (1885).—Bellier, i. 319.

CREATION, Michelangelo. See Adam; Eve; Sun and Moon; Trees 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 assistant of Verrocchio at same time with Leonardo da Vinci and Perugino. Under Verrocchio's 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 favourite subject was the Holy Family. The best and oldest of his altarpieces is the Madonna and St. John the Baptist in the Duomo of Pistoja, which is strongly reminiscent of Leonardo. His Madonna, Mentz Museum, is almost equally successful, as is the Holy Family, Palazzo Borghese, Rome. The Madonna with Saints, Louvre; Baptism of Christ, Uffizi, Florence; Nativity, Florence Academy; and Madonna and Virgin adoring Infant Christ, National Gallery, London, are also among the best examples of his work.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 403; Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 563, 575; Burckhardt, 581, 622, 855; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 368; ii. 37.

CREMONINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, born at Cento (?), died in Bologna in 1610. Bolgnese school. Chiefly a decorative painter. Painted some good historical subjects, 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 in the Bologna Gallery. Other examples in churches of Bologna, as, e.g., fresco,—the Annunciation, ceiling 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, École bolonaise; Gualandi, 50, 126.

CRESCENZIO, ANTONIO, of Palermo, 15th century. Neapolitan school. No records 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 without much regard for appropriate distribution, 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. Lombardo-Milanese school; son and pupil of Gio. Battista Crespi (Il 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 pictures, March to Calvary, Last Supper, Holy Family, Baptism of Christ, are in the Brera; others in churches in Milan, and in the Certosa of Pavia.—Lanzi, ii. 520; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise; Burckhardt, 765; Lavice, Revue des Musées d'Italie (Paris, 1862).

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