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BELISARIO CORENZIO (c. 1558-1643)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 144 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . 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 . The hired See also:bravo killed Guido's assistant, and effectually frightened Reni, who prudently withdrew to See also:Rome . 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 . Corenzio vainly endeavoured to fill Guido's See also:place in the chapel of St Januarius . 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:church of See also:Monte See also:Casino are See also:evidence of uncommon facility, and show that Corenzio was not greatly inferior to the fa prestos of his See also:time . His florid style, indeed, seems well in keeping with the overladen See also:architecture and full-blown decorative See also:ornament See also:peculiar to the Jesuit builders of the 17th See also:century . Corenzio died, it is said, at the See also:age of eighty-five by a fall from a scaffolding . CO-See also:RESPONDENT, in See also:law, generally, a See also:person made respondent to, or called upon to See also:answer, along with another or others, a See also:petition or other proceeding . More particularly, since the Matrimonial Causes See also:Act 1857, the See also:term is applied to the person charged by a See also:husband, when presenting a petition praying for the See also:dissolution of his See also:marriage on the ground of See also:adultery, with misconduct with his wife, and made, jointly with her, a respondent to the suit .

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