reputation, owing to the agitations and vexations brought
upon him by a passion which he conceived for his sister-in-law. His wife
having died, and the sister-in-law having taken charge of his house and
children, he endeavoured to procure a papal dispensation for marrying
her; but in this he was disappointed. In 1583 he accepted an invitation
from Philip II. to continue in the Escorial a series of frescoes which
had been begun by Castello, now deceased; and it is said that one
principal reason for his closing with this offer was that he hoped to
bring the royal influence to bear upon the pope, but in this again he
failed. Worn out with his disquietudes, he died in the Escorial in the
second year of his sojourn. Cambiasi had an ardent fancy, and was a bold
designer in a Raphaelesque mode. His extreme facility astonished the
Spanish painters; and it is said that Philip II., watching one day with
pleasure the offhand zest with which Luchetto was painting a head of a
laughing child, was allowed the further surprise of seeing the laugh
changed, by a touch or two upon the lips, into a weeping expression. The
artist painted sometimes with a brush in each hand, and with a certainty
equalling or transcending that even of Tintoret. He made a vast number
of drawings, and was also something of a sculptor, executing in this
branch of art a figure of Faith. Altogether he ranks as one of the
ablest artists of his day. In personal character, notwithstanding his
executive energy, he is reported to have been timid and diffident. His
son Orazio became likewise a painter, studying under Luchetto.

The best works of Cambiasi are to be seen in Genoa. In the church of
S. Giorgio--the martyrdom of that saint; in the Palazzo Imperiali
Terralba, a Genoese suburb--a fresco of the "Rape of the Sabines"; in
S. Maria da Carignano--a "Pieta," containing his own portrait and
(according to tradition) that of his beloved sister-in-law. In the
Escorial he executed several pictures; one is a Paradise on the
vaulting of the church, with a multitude of figures. For this picture
he received 12,000 ducats, probably the largest sum that had, up to
that time, ever been given for a single work.

CAMBODIA[1] (called by the inhabitants _Sroc Khmer_ and by the French
_Cambodge_), a country of south-eastern Asia and a protectorate of
France, forming part of French Indo-China.

_Geography_.--It is bounded N. by Siam and Laos, E. by Annam, S.