a good
example of the Norman-Gothic style, and that of Tour-en-Bessin, in which
Romanesque and Gothic architecture are mingled, are of great interest.
Fontaine-Henri has a fine chateau of the 15th and 16th centuries.
CALVART, DENIS (1540-1619), Flemish painter, was born at Antwerp. After
studying landscape-painting for some time in his native city he went to
Bologna, where he perfected himself in the anatomy of the human form
under Prospero Fontana, and so completely lost the mannerism of Flemish
art that his paintings appear to be the work of an Italian. From Bologna
he went to Rome, where he assisted Lorenzo Sabbatini (1533-1577) in his
works for the papal palace, and devoted much of his time to copying and
studying the works of Raphael. He ultimately returned to Bologna and
founded a school, of which the greatest ornaments are Guido and
Domenichino. His works are especially admired for the power of grouping
and colouring which they display.
CALVARY, the conventional English rendering of the _calvaria_ of the
Vulgate, the Latin version of the Greek _[Greek: kranion]_, both meaning
"skull" and representing the Hebrew Golgotha, the name given to the
scene of Christ's crucifixion. The term "a Calvary" is applied to a
sculptured representation of the Crucifixion, either inside a church, or
adjoining one in the open air. There are many examples of the latter in
France, Italy and Spain. Among the most important are the Sacro Monte
(1486) at Varallo in Piedmont, and those at Guimiliau (1581), Plougastel
(1602), St Thegonnec (1610), and Pleyben near Quimper (1670), in
Brittany, all in good preservation.
CALVE EMMA (1864- ), Spanish operatic soprano, was born at Madrid, and
trained in Paris, making her first important appearance in opera at
Brussels in 1882. She sang mainly in Paris for some years, but in 1892
was first engaged at Covent Garden, London, and at once became famous as
the most vivid Carmen (in Bizet's opera) of the day.
CALVERLEY, CHARLES STUART (1831-1884), English poet and wit, and the
literary father of what may be called the university school of humour,
was born at Martley in Worcestershire on the 22nd of December 1831. His
father, the Rev. Henry Blayds, resumed in 1852 the old family name of
Calverley, which his grandfather had exchanged for Blayds in 1807. It
was as Charles Stuart Blayds that most of the son's university
distinctions were attained. He went up to Balliol from
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