CASTOR AND POLLUX, Rubens, Munich Gallery; canvas, H. 7 ft. 4 in. × 6 ft. 10 in. Castor and Pollux carrying off Hilæira and Phœbe, daughters of Leucippus. One of them, mounted on a noble horse, the reins of which are held by Cupid, is lifting up one of the women, aided by his brother, who is holding the other one upon his knee. Engraved by Val. Green.—Smith, ii. 63.
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Castor and Pollux, Rubens, Munich Gallery.
CASUAL WARD, Luke Fildes, Holloway
Institute, Egham, near London. A group
of wretched and deformed creatures waiting
for admission to a resting place for the
night. Wonderfully realistic. Royal Academy,
1874; Philadelphia Exposition, 1876;
Paris Exposition, 1878; sold to Thos. Taylor,
of Wigan; Taylor sale (1883), £2,205.—Art
Journal (1874), 201; Portfolio, May,
1878.
CATEL, FRANZ LUDWIG, born in Berlin,
Feb. 22, 1778, died in Rome, Dec. 19,
1856. German school; landscape painter.
Beginning as wood-carver and illustrator of
books, he practised water-colour, and in
1806 painted the assassination of Nicholas
von Bernau, for which he was elected member
of the Berlin Academy. Went to Paris
in 1807, where he commenced oil painting,
to Switzerland in 1811, where he studied
Alpine scenery, and to Rome in 1812, where
his talent developed through intercourse
with Koch, Overbeck, Schadow, and Cornelius.
With the exception of occasional home
visits, he remained in Italy, and from 1830
lived at his country seat near Macerata.
His landscapes with architectural accessories
are broadly treated, and effective in chiaroscuro.
Works: Colonnade of St. Peter's by
Moonlight; Storm on Etna; Monastery near
Salerno; Interior of Pantheon; The Via
Appia; View from Cloister at Amalfi; Gondolas
on the Lagoon; View of Rome; Crater
of Vesuvius; Ruins of Pæstum; Villa of
Mæcenas at Tivoli. Other pictures in Berlin,
Munich, and Copenhagen Galleries.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., iv. 70; Riegel, 533.
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CATENA, VINCENZO, born at Treviso
about 1465, died in Venice, 1531. Venetian
school; real name, Vincenzo di Biagio;
known in 1495, when a journeyman in the
Sala del Gran Consiglio, Venice, as Vincenzo
da Treviso. A pupil of the Bellini, he
copied Giovanni Bellini, without approaching
him in drawing, boldness of treatment,
or richness of colouring; but he was a
painter of great industry and considerable
reputation, and made friends among the
wealthy. Among his earlier pictures are a
Presentation of Christ to Simeon, Communal
Gallery, Padua; a Madonna and Saints,
Liverpool Institution; and a Trinity, S.
Simeone, Venice. His skill increased with
the opening of the 16th century, as is shown
in his Madonna and Doge Loredano, Palazzo
Ducale, Venice. His portrait of Loredano,
Lochis-Carrara Gallery, Bergamo, is assigned
to Gentile Bellini, and the copy at
Dresden to Giov. Bellini. In 1520 Catena
finished the Glorification of St. Christina, in
S. M. Mater Domini, Venice. Other pictures
by him are: Madonna and Saints,
Dresden Gallery; Circumcision, Leuchten-
