A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
Caravaggio, but, judging from his paintings,
would seem to have formed his style upon that
of Andrea da Salerno. He passed the greater
portion of his life in Naples, in which city and its
neighbourhood many examples of his painting can
be found. Dominici has given a particular account
of his productions. He died about 1542. Some
of his paintings are :
Naples. Museum. St. Augustine disputing with the Heretics. „ S.PietroadAram.Vlescent from the Cross. „ „ „ A Pietri, with SS. Peter and Paul.
CARDON, Antoine, an engraver, was born at Brussels in 1772. He was the son of Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon, and was instructed in art by his father. During the troubles in the Low Countries in 1792, he took refuge in Eng- land, and brought with him an introduction to Mr. Colnaghi, who discerned the rising talent of the young artist, and gave him immediate employment. He had risen to a deservedly high rank in public estimation when he fell a victim to a too assiduous application to his profession. His death took place in London in 1813. Amongst his numerous plates, chiefly executed in stipple, may be mentioned :
The Presentation of Catharine of France to Henry V. of England ; after Stothard. Salvator Mundi ; after Carlo Void. The Woman taken in Adultery ; after Rubens. Plates of the Indian Campaign against Tippoo Sahib. The Battle of Alexandria ; after Loutherbourg. The Battle of Maida ; after the same. The Storming of Seringapatam ; after Singleton. Portrait of Madame E?canuer ; after Cosway.
CARDON, Antoine Alexandre Joseph, a painter and engraver, was born at Brussels in 1739. He acquired his knowledge of painting at Vienna, under the tuition of H. de La Pegna, and was afterwards enabled to visit Rome, where he worked for three years. After that he went to Naples, where he laid aside the brush for the graver, and was employed on the plates for Hamilton's ' Etruscan Antiquities.' He died at Brussels in 1822. Amongst his prints may be noticed: Portrait of George, Prince of Wales. 1768. Portrait of the ChevaUer Verhulst. Le Bain Kustique ; after A . TVatteau. La Signature du Contrat de la Noce de Village ; after the same. His principal work.
CARDONNEL, Anthony de, who flourished about the year 1790, etched several plates, representing ancient buildings in Scotland.
CAKDUCCI, Bartolommeo, (or, as he was called in Spain, Carducho,) was born at Florence in 1560, and was brought up in the school of Federigo Zuccaro. He assisted that master in the great cupola at Florence ; and whilst he was yet very young, painted for the church of the Jesuits two pictures, representing the Immaculate Conception and the Nativity. When Zuccaro was invited by Philip II. to the court of Madrid, he prevailed on Carducci to accompany him, and he assisted in the great works that master executed in the Escorial. In_ conjunction with Pellegrino Tibaldi, Carducci painted the famous library ; the former did the ceiling, the latter the walls, with allegories of the Sciences. A great portion of the fresco paintings in the cloister of the Escorial are by this master, and were so much admired by the king, that he rewarded him with two hundred ducats, independent of his salary. His principal work, and that which above all others established his reputation in Spain, was the ' Descent from the Cross,' in the Church of San Felipe el Real, at Madrid. After the death of Philip II., Carducci continued some years in the service of his successor, Philip III., by whom he was engaged to paint a gallery in the palace of the Pardo. The subject was to have been the principal events in the life of Charles V. It was begun by Carducci, but he died before he had made any great progress in the work, in 1608. He was also an architect and sculptor.
CARDUCCI, ViNCENZo, (or Carddcho,) the younger brother of Bartolommeo Carducci, was bom at Florence in 1568. He was taken by his brother to Madrid in 1685, " at so tender an age that he grew up with very faint recollections of Italy, and learned to speak and write Castilian like his own mother tongue." He was instructed in painting by his brother Bartolommeo, whom Vincenzo succeeded in 1609, as painter to the king, and Philip III. engaged him to finish the gallery in the palace of the Pardo, which had been begun by his brother. Instead of the life of Charles V. he adopted the history of Achilles, and finished the work to the entire satisfaction of his patron. He was also made court painter to Philip IV., his successor, by whom he was employed in many considerable works. His pictures are to be seen in all the cities of Castile, in Salamanca, Toledo, Segovia, and Valladolid. In 1626, he entered into an agreement to paint, for the Carthusian Monastery at Paular, fifty-four large pictures in four years, but some of them bear date 1632. These works are now in the National Museum at Madrid ; they represent scenes from the Life of St. Bruno, and the history of his order. His works in the churches of Madrid are, the Great Chapel in the Con- vent of La Encarnacion ; in the Convent Del Rosario, the ' Angel instructing Joseph in his dream to fly into Egypt,' and ' St. Anthony of Padua' ; in the Refectory of the Franciscans, ' St. John preaching.' His last picture was a ' St. Jerome,' in the Church of Alcaldde Henares, which he did not live to finish, as appears by the inscription : Vinceneius Carducko hie vitam non opus Jinii 1638. His death occurred at Madrid in that year. He was the author of ' Dialogos de las excelencias de la Pintura,' printed at Madrid in 1633, which Cean Bernmdez pro- nounces to be the best work on the subject in the Castilian language. Cean Bermudez possessed two etchings by Carducci — the 'Death of Abel,' and a 'Penitsnt Saint.' Vincenzo Carducci strenuously opposed the then prevalent tax on paintings, and obtained in 1633 a royal decree for its remission when artists sold their own works, and four years later succeeded in causing its total abolition. The following pictures by him are in the Madrid Gallery : Battle of Floras. lom the Valace ot Kebef of Constance. Taking of Kheinfeldt. Scenes from the Life of the Virgin. St. Bruno.
CARDUCHO. See Carducci.
CARESME, Philippe, a French historical painter, was bom in Paris in 1734. He was doubtless a pupil of Charles Antoine Coypel, and was admitted into the Academy whilst still young, but expelled eight years later in consequence of misconduct in some pecuniary transaction. In 1781, when a royalist, he composed an allegorical design in commemoration of the birth of the Dauphin, and
in 1794, after he had become an ardent republican.
260
