A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
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S. Gines.
Cathedral.
Pinakot}t£k.
Sermitage.
Dresden. Gallery. St. Paul.
Granada. Cathedral. The Virgin in SoKtude.
Madrid. Gallery Madonna in Adoration.
„ „ The Scourging of Christ.
„ „ The Dead Christ.
„ „ St. Benedict in Meditation.
„ „ St. John the Evangelist.
St. Jerome.
A Crucifixion.
Christ seated and stripped.
Malaga. Cathedral. The Virgin of the Eosary.
Munich. Pinakolhek. St. Anthony of Padua.
Petrsbrg. Sermitage. Virgin and Child.
„ „ Infant Christ and St. John.
„ „ Apparition of Saints to a Dominican.
„ „ Portrait of AJonso Cano.
Seville. Cathedral, The Madonna and Child.
„ 3Iuseum. Souls in Purgatory,
CANO, Joaquin Josef, a Spanish painter, was bom at Seville, and became a pupil of Domenioo Martinez. He excelled in copying the works of other masters, and so skilfully imitated the ' Vir- gins ' of Murillo that his copies may be mistaken for the originals. He was secretary of the School of Design at Seville, and died in that city in 1784.
CANO DE AREVALO, Juan, a Spanish painter of fans, was born at Valdemoro in 1656, and became a scholar of Francisco Camilo. After wasting much of his time in idle company, and much of his energy in fencing, by secluding himself for a whole winter, and bringing out his accumulated labours in the spring, he succeeded in making his beautifully-painted fans the fashion, as newly- imported French ones. The discovery of the trick did not destroy their well-earned popularity, and Cano was appointed ahaniquero (fan-maker) to the queen. Although his chief excellence lay in miniature painting, he executed some larger works : several in distemper for the chapel of the Rosary in the church of his native town, and a singular allegorical piece, painted on the death of Queen Maria Louisa, representing that queen as a winged spirit surrounded by a halo of rays, each contain- ing a text allusive to her virtues. It was hung like a canopy over the cofiBn within the grotesque catafalque of Churriguera. It was engraved by Gregorio Fosman for the work of Vera Tassis, the plate bearing Cano's curious monogram. He also assisted a brother artist in some altar-pieces for the Jesuits, and for the church of Santa Maria at AlcaU. He was treacherously assassinated in a duel at Madrid in 1696.
CANON, Hans, (or Johann von Steaschiripka,) a German painter, of Polish descent, was born in 1829. In 1853 he dropped his unpronounceable Polish name for that by which he was afterwards known. He began life in the army, but in 1853 studied under Rahl, and subsequently worked in Paris under Delaroche and Horace Vemet. He first attracted attention as a eatirico-political draughtsman, then as a painter of portraits and military subjects. He eventually took to historical painting on an enormous scale, and in a preposter- ously exaggerated style. He lived successively at Carlsruhe, and at Vienna, where he died in 1885.
CANON, Pierre Laurent, a French miniature and landscape painter, was bom at Caen in 1787. He exliibited his works at Lille and Douai, but in Paris at the Salon of 1831 only. He died in Paris in 1852.
CANOT, Pierre Charles, a French engraver, was born about the year 1710, and came in 1740 to England. He was elected an Associate-En- graver of the Royal Academy in 1770, and died at Kentish Town in 1777. He engraved a great number of landscapes and sea-pieces, many of which have great merit. Some of his best prints were executed after the works of Richard Paton. The following are his most esteemed plates :
A Slight Breeze ; after BaTahutsen. A Fresh Breeze ; A Calm ; and A Storm ; after JV. van de I'elde. Keturning from Market ; after P. de Laer. The Amorous Toper ; and The Dutch Smokers ; after D. Tenters. The Dutch Cottage; Autumn; Winter; after Pillement. A Dutch Merry-making; after Ostade. Pyramus and Thisbe ; after L. Bramer. The Tempest ; after S. de lliegher. An ItaUan Landscape ; after Gaspard Foussin. A Landscape ; and Sunrise, a marine ; after Claude Lorrain. Two Pastoral Subjects ; after liosa da Tivoli. Two Views of Westminster Bridge and London Bridge; after Scott. Seven Fox-hunting Subjects ; after JVootton.
CANOVA, Antonio, the celebrated sculptor, who was also a painter, was born at Possagno, near Bassano, in 1757. His paintings show a careful study of the Venetian masters, and are slightly finished as to their general colouring. In 1798 he produced 'The Dead Christ, with St. Mary, St. Joseph, and Nicodemus,' for his native town. The Museum of Nantes has a picture of ' Godefroid de Bouillon,' presented by the artist to M. Cacault in 1803. Canova died at Venice in 1822.
CANOZZI, Cristoforo, the brother of Lorenzo Canozzi, was born at Lendinara about 1426. His works up to 1477 are mentioned in the notice of his brother. After Lorenzo's death he carried on business partly at Parma and partly at Modena. He was the author of a panel of a ' Virgin and Child ' in the Gallery of Modena, signed and dated 1482 : in the same Gallery is a ' Crucifixion, with SS. Jerome and Francis,' that may be attributed to him. The date of his death is uncertain.
CANOZZI, Lorenzo, called Lorenzo da Len- dinara, was born at that town in 1425. Both he and his younger brother Cristoforo were painters, mosaioists, modellers in terra-cotta, and printers of books. They flourished at Modena and Padua. Paciolo declares Lorenzo to have been a complete master of perspective. Between the years 1460 and 1470 these brothers finished the carving and inlaying of ninety staUs in the choir of the Santo, Padua ; and in 1465 they executed the stalls in the choir of the cathedral of Modena. The first mentioned, ^vith four exceptions, all perished by fire in 1749. At Modena four of the panels representing the Doctors of the Church, still remain. Between 1472 and 1476 the two brothers executed the mosaics of the presses in the sacristy of the Santo, Padua, from designs by Squarcione, of whom Lorenzo at least was a pupil ; these have been much damaged by restorations. Lorenzo is also thought to be the author of the frescoes of SS. Jerome, Ambrose, Gregorj', and Augustine in the Eremitani Chapel at Padua. His death occurred in 1477, and after that the business was carried on by Cristoforo. A ' Madonna and Child ' in the Modena Gallery bears his name, and the date 1482.
CANTA-GALLINA, Remigio, was an Italian designer and engraver, born at Florence in 1582. He frequented for some time the school of the Carracci, though he does not appear to have distinguished himself as a painter. He was in- stmcted in engraving by Giulio Parigi. His pen drawings possess great merit, and are highly
esteemed. We have a number of plates by him
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