CURRADO, FRANCESCO, born near Florence in 1570, died in Florence in 1661. Florentine school; history painter, pupil of B. Naldini; after working for churches in Florence, went to Rome, where he painted several pictures for the King of Portugal, who sent him the Order of Christ. Settled in Florence, where he brought up many pupils. Works: St. Francis Xavier preaching in India, S. Giovannino, Florence; Narcissus, St. Catherine, Palazzo Pitti, ib.; Magdalen, Martyrdom of St. Thecla, his own portrait, Uffizi, ib.; Abraham receiving the Angels, Vienna Museum. His brothers Pietro and Cosimo were his pupils and followers.
CURTI, GIROLAMO. See Dentone.
CURZON, PAUL ALFRED DE, born at
Moulinat, near Poitiers, Sept. 7, 1820. Landscape
and genre painter, pupil of Drolling
and Cabat. Won second prize for historical
landscape at the École des Beaux Arts in
1849. Is highly esteemed, especially for his
genre pictures. Has also tried water-colour
and lithography. Medals: 2d class, 1857,
1859, 1861, and 1863; 3d class, 1867; 2d
class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1865. Works:
Hops (1845); The River Clain, Auvergne,
The Loire (1846); Water Spirits, Béranger's
Fates (1848); Beside the Water (1849);
Democritus Meditating, Ruins of Pæstum,
View of Terracina, Acropolis of Athens
(1852); The Cephisus (1855); Dante and
Virgil on Shores of Purgatory, Blind Greeks,
Women of Piscinisco, An Albanian Woman
(1857); Psyche (1859), Luxembourg Museum;
Tasso at Sorrento, Near Foligno, Near
Civita-Castellana (1859); Neapolitan Flower-Girls,
In the Woods, Pilgrims halting at
Subiaco, Family of Fishermen in Capri,
The Illissus and Ruins of Temple of Jupiter
at Athens (1861); Ave Maria, Galinaro's
Granddaughter, Vesuvius (1863); Vintage
at Procida, Ruins of Roman Bridge near the
Walls of Nami (1864); Consoling Angel,
Torrent in the Apennines (1865); Dream in
the Ruins of Pompeii (1866); Dominicans
decorating their Chapel (1867), Ostia (1868),
Luxembourg Museum; The Prophetess,
Coast of Sorrento, The River Clain at Poitiers
(1869); Birth of Homer, The Ocean
(1870); Harbour of Toulon, Moulières River
near Toulon (1872); A River (1873); First
Portrait; Serenade in the Abruzzi (1874);
Triptych, or 3 Scenes from the Life of Ruth
(1875); Ruins of Temple of Jupiter near
Athens, View from Summit of the Acropolis
(1876); Graziella, Ruins of Aqueducts on
the Roman Campagna (1877); Near Public
Well at Amalfi, Ruins of the Acropolis of
Athens in 1852 (1878); Stairs of Atrani at
Ravello, Lake Avezzano (1879); Girl and
her Guardian Angel, Garden near Nimes
(1880); Erechtheum at Athens (1881); View
of the Sea and Capri, Coast of Provence
near Toulon (1882); Acropolis and Campagna
of Athens, Foot of Mount Taygetus
(1883); Banks of the Teverone—Roman
Campagna, Environs and Bay of Athens
(1884); View in Black Forest (1885).—Larousse;
Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), 510.
CUTHBERT, ST., Ernest Duez, Luxembourg
Museum; canvas, triptych, H. 10 ft.
8 in. × 23 ft. Cuthbert, a shepherd in the
Valley of the Tweed, was educated in a monastery,
and became a noted preacher. He
lived on Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, off the
coast of Northumberland, where he supported
himself by his own labour and was
miraculously fed. Finally became Bishop
of Lindisfarne and built there a monastery,
destroyed by the Danes in 900. The middle
part of the picture represents him in his
bishop's robes. Salon, 1879.
CUYLENBORCH (Cuylenburg, Kuylenburg),
ABRAHAM VAN, died after 1664.
Dutch school; landscape painter in the manner
of Poelenburg; master of Utrecht guild
in 1639. Works: Grotto with Diana and
her Nymphs, Hague Museum; Landscapes
with similar Subject (1646, 1647), Brunswick
Gallery; do. (1660), Cologne Museum;
three (1643, attributed to Breenbergh),
Mannheim Gallery; two (1640, 1647),
Schleissheim Gallery; two (1644, 1646),
Schwerin Gallery; one (1664), Copenhagen
Gallery; two, Borghese Gallery, Rome;
