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 110 MORONI— MUZIANO. traits of themselves, they should be painted by Moroni. His historical works are more in the Lombard or Milanese taste than the Venetian. Works. Bergamo, Sant' Alessandro della Croce, the Coronation of the Vir- gin. Verona, the cathedral, St. Peter and St. Paul. Milan, Brera, the As- sumption of the Virgin ; the >^rgin and Saints ; and three male portraits. The Academy and Manfrini Galleries of Venice, and the Uffizj of Florence, contain also portraits ; and in the Ber- lin gallery is a portrait of the painter, and another of a young man. London. Stafford House, the Portrait of a Jesuit. {Bidolji, Tassi,) MUNARI, Pellegbino, called, also, Abetusi, and commonly Pelleobino DA. MoDENA, d. 1523. Boman School. He visited Rome in 1 509, and became an . assistant of Raphael ; he painted the histories of Jacob and Solomon, in the Loggie of the Vatican, from the designs of Raphael. Pellegrino com- pletely acqmred the style of Raphael in execution. After the death of that great painter he left Rome, and settled at Modena, and a similar influence to that exerted by Criulio Romano at Mantua was brought to bear by Pelle- grino at Modena. Works, Modena, church of San Paolo, the Birth of the Virgin. Rome, San G-iacomo degli Spagnuoli, the Life of St James, fresco. London, Stafford Gallery, the Madonna and Child, with Saints, enthroned. {Tiraboschi.) MURA, Francesco de, called Fban- OESCHiELLO. He was a native of Naples, and living in 1743. Neapolitan School. One of the principal scholars of Fran- cesco Solimene, and painted in his superficial manner. He was employed in many of the public and private buildings of Naples ; but, says Lanzi, his best works are the frescoes of the Royal palace at Turin, where, about 1 730, he represented, in several cham- bers, some Olympic games, and the achievements of Achilles. (Domtmct.) MURANO,Ain>REA. da, painted about 1400. Andrea was one of the first painters of the Venetian School who displayed any original ability, Jand, as the master of the Vivarini, must be considered one of the fathers of Vene- tian painting. He improved the treat- ment of the extremities, and planted his figures better than had previously been done. In the Venetian Aca- demy is a picture by Andrea, from San Pietro Martirein Murano, of the Virgin, with St Sebastian and other Saints. MURATORI, BoMENico Mabia, b. near Bologna, 1662; d. at Rome, 1749. Bolognese School. The scholar of Lorenzo Pasinelli : he painted in the style of Maratta and Ciguani, chiefly for the churches at Rome ; among which the altar-piece of the church of the Santi Apostoli, the Martyrdom of St. Philip and St James, has the reputa- tion of being the largest in Rome. In the church of the Sagre Stimate is Christ crowned with Thorns : in San Giovanni in Laterano, a Prophet At Pisa, in the primaziale or cathedral is San Ranieri working a miracle, one of Muratori's best pieces. {Lanzi,) MUZIANO, GmoLAKo, b, atAqna- fredda, near Brescia, 1530; d. April 27, at Rome, 1592. Venetian School. He was the scholar first of Girolamo Romanino, at Brescia ; he then studied the works of Titian at Venice, espe- cially his landscape backgrounds ; and was employed subsequently, from about 1550, at Rome. Here he first became known as Girolamo de' Paesi; but he doon showed other ability than that of landscape-painting; and he was pro- nounced even by Michelangelo one of the first painters of his time. His works are not quite free from that ana- tomical mannerism which possessed the imitators of the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, but many of them are of