es amours de Bacchus_ and _Les Peines et les plaisirs
de l'amour_.
CAMBERWELL, a southern metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded
N. by Southwark and Bermondsey, E. by Deptford and Lewisham, W. by
Lambeth, and extending S. to the boundary of the county of London. Pop,
(1901) 259,339. Area, 4480 acres. It appears in Domesday, but the
derivation of the name is unknown. It includes the districts of Peckham
and Nunhead, and Dulwich (q.v.) with its park, picture-gallery and
schools. Camberwell is mainly residential, and there are many good
houses, pleasantly situated in Dulwich and southward towards the high
ground of Sydenham. Dulwich Park (72 acres) and Peckham Rye Common and
Park (113 acres) are the largest of several public grounds, and
Camberwell Green was once celebrated for its fairs. Immediately outside
the southern boundary lies a well-known place of recreation, the Crystal
Palace. Among institutions may be mentioned the Camberwell school of
arts and crafts, Peckham Road. In Camberwell Road is Cambridge House, a
university settlement, founded in 1897 and incorporating the earlier
Trinity settlement. The parliamentary borough of Camberwell has three
divisions, North, Peckham and Dulwich, each returning one member: but is
not wholly coincident with the municipal borough, the Dulwich division
extending to include Penge, outside the county of London. The borough
council consists of a mayor, ten aldermen, and sixty councillors.
CAMBIASI, LUCA (1527-1585), Genoese painter, familiarly known as
Lucchetto da Genova (his surname is written also Cambiaso or Cangiagio),
was born at Moneglia in the Genoese state, the son of a painter named
Giovanni Cambiasi. He took to drawing at a very early age, imitating his
father, and developed great aptitude for foreshortening. At the age of
fifteen he painted, along with his father, some subjects from Ovid's
_Metamorphoses_ on the front of a house in Genoa, and afterwards, in
conjunction with Marcantonio Calvi, a ceiling showing great daring of
execution in the Palazzo Doria. He also formed an early friendship with
Giambattista Castello; both artists painted together, with so much
similarity of style that their works could hardly be told apart; from
this friend Cambiasi learned much in the way of perspective and
architecture. Luchetto's best artistic period lasted for twelve years
after his first successes; from that time he declined in power, though
not at once in
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