COELLO, CLAUDIO. - Spanish painter and architect, b. in Madrid, baptized on 2 March 1642, d. there on 20 April 1693. A pupil in his homeland of Francesco Rizi, he was nevertheless drawn toward the forms of Rubens, Van Dyck and the Italian seventeenth-century masters. In Madrid he left paintings in the church of St. Placid and Holy Cross; he also painted frescoes there, which were lost, like the paintings, in a fire at the beginning of the 18th century.

In the frescoes of Holy Cross he had as his collaborator the architect Jimenez Donoso, with whom he also worked on the decoration of the triumphal arch erected in honor of Queen Maria Luisa of Orléans. Other frescoes of his are in the church of the Augustinians in Saragossa (1683), and a large painting of his with Charles II kneeling before the Host is in the sacristy of the Escorial. In the Prado Museum in Madrid numerous paintings of his are preserved, among others: The Madonna and Child among the Theological Virtues and Saints, The Madonna and Child Adored by St. Louis King of France, St. Dominic of Guzman, St. Rose of Lima, The Triumph of St. Dominic.

C. is to be considered one of the most significant exponents of Spanish painting of the 17th century.

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BIBL.: J. F. Rafala, s. v. in Enc. Ital., X (1931), p. 696 (with ample bibl.); F. J. Sanchez Canton, Museo del Prado. Catalogo de los cuadros, Madrid 1949, pp. 138-42.

Emilio Lavagnino

COENA DOMINI (IN): v. BULLA IN COENA DOMINI.

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