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BELISARIO See also:CORENZIO (c. 1558-1643)
, See also:Italian painter, a See also:Greek by See also:birth, studied at See also:Venice under See also:Tintoretto, and then settled at See also:Naples, where he became famous for unscrupulous conduct as a See also:man and rapid See also:execution as an artist
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Though careless in See also:composition and a mannerist in See also:style, he possessed an acknowledged fertility of invention and readiness of See also:hand; and these qualities, allied to a certain breadth of conception, seem in the eyes of his contemporaries to have atoned for many defects
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When Guido Reni came in 1621 to Naples to paint in the See also:chapel of St See also:Januarius, See also:Corenzio suborned an See also:assassin to take his See also:life
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The hired See also:bravo killed Guido's assistant, and effectually frightened Reni, who prudently withdrew to See also:Rome
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Corenzio, however, only suffered temporary imprisonment, and lived See also:long enough to supplant See also:Ribera in the See also:good See also:graces of See also:Don Pedro di See also:Toledo, See also:viceroy of Naples, who made him his See also:court painter
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Corenzio vainly endeavoured to fill Guido's See also:place in the chapel of St Januarius
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His See also:work was adjudged to have been under the See also:mark, and yet the numerous frescoes which he See also:left in Neapolitan churches and palaces, and the large See also:wall paintings which still See also:cover the See also:cupola of the See also: |
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