CENNINI pecially in the expression of sorrow. Waa- gen, Treasures, ii. 36. Attributed to Guide Eeni, Palazzo Bar- berini, Rome. Three-quarters face of touch- ing beauty. Head enveloped in drapery, calm but sad expression, lips tremulous with suppressed emotion. If, as is probable, painted by Guido, it cannot be the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, as she was executed in Beatrice Cenci, attributed to Guido. Palazzo Barberini, Rome. September, 1599, and Guido did not paint at Rome until 1008. Furthermore, the picture is not mentioned in the Barberini Catalogues of 1C04 or 1623, so that it was not in the Gallery until after the latter date. Engraved by Perfetti. A. Bertolotti, Fran- cesco Cenci e la sua famiglia ; Edinburgh Review, Jan., 1879 ; Academy, March 18, 1878 ; Giornale di erudizione artistica (Peru- gia, 1876), v. 276. CENNINI, CENNINO DI DREA, born at Colle di Val d'Elsa. Florentine school ; end of 14th and beginning of 15th century ; disciple for twelve years of Agnolo Gaddi. As he was in Padua in 1398, it is not im- probable that he left Florence after Aguolo's
- death (1396). His Virgin and Saints, a
fresco in the Hospital of S. Giovanni Bat- tista, Florence, has disappeared, but the frescos of scenes in the life of Christ, in the church of the Compagnia della Croce di Giorno, Volterra, dated 1410 and signed Cienni da Firenze, are generally assigned to Cenniui. He is best known, however, as the author of Trattato della pittura, the oldest modern work on the technical pro- cesses of painting. C. & C., Italy, i. 477 ; Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 643 ; Eastlake, Ma- terials, etc., 71 ; Baldinucci, i. 308 ; Milane- si, H libro dell' arte o trattato della pittura (Florence, 1859) ; Quellenschriften, i. 1 ; Preface to Mrs. Merrifield's translation of | Cennini's Treatise (London, 1844) ; Ltlbke, Gesch. ital. Mai, i. 150. CENTAUR FAMILY, ancient picture. See Ze.uxix. CENTAURS AND LAPITHS, BATTLE BETWEEN, ancient picture. See Micon. CEPHALUS. See Bloemen, Norbert van. CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS, Claude Lorrain, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. x 4 ft. 5 in.; signed, dated Rome, 1645. Cephalus receiving from Pro- cris the presents of Diana the hound Le- laps and the fatal dart with which she was subsequently killed. Liber Veritatis, No. 91. Engraved by Browne, by Pye, and in Jones's National Gallery. Waagen doubts the genuineness of this picture. Cat. Nat. Gal.; Waagen, Treasures, i. 341 ; Pattison, Claude Lorrain, 227. By Guercino, Dresden Gallery ; canvas, H. 6 f t 7 in. x 8 ft. 3 in. Cephalus weeping over the dead body of Procris, whom lie has accidentally slain with an arrow ; above, a Cupid weeping ; at right, two dogs. Painted in 1644 for Anne of Austria, Queen of France, who presented it to Cardinal Mazarin ; passed on his death to the Prince de Carignan, from whose collection bought in 1744 for 4,000 livres. Engraved by L. S. Lempereur; Keyl. Gal. Roy. de Dresde, ii. PI. 22. Subject treated also by Polidoro da Cara- vaggio, Vienna Museum.
