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 MANOAH extravagances, Mannozzi was capable of bet- ter tilings when be saw fit to work seriously. Works : Portrait of a Cook, Reunion of Huntsmen, Madonna, Pitti, Florence ; Ve- nus and Cupid, Marriage of St. Catherine, Jesus served by Angels, Madonna, Uflizi, Florence. Ch. Blanc, Ecole florentine. MANOAH, SACRIFICE OF, Rr.mbrandt, Dresden Gallery ; canvas, H. 8 ft. 7 in. x 10 ft. ; signed, dated 1041. Mfinoah and his wife kneeling before an altar, on which their sacrifice is burning ; above the smoke, the angel ascending (Judges, xiii. 20). Smith, vii. 14 ; Yosmaer, 458. MANS, FREDERICKS H., died after 1087. Dutch school ; landscape and figure painter, about whose life nothing is known ; probably worked at Utrecht. His pictures are frequently to be found in private collec- tions in Holland. Works : Yiev on the Downs (1073), Rotterdam Museum ; Win- ter Landscape (1008), Oldenburg Gallery ; Three do. (1077), Dresden Museum ; Dutch Landscape, Leipsic Museum ; Skating on Village Pond (1087), Vienna Museum. MAXSKIRSCH, BERNARD GOTT- FRIED, born at Bonn in 1730, died in Co- logne, March 19, 1817. Landscape painter, pupil of his father, a painter of some re- pute ; accompanied his patron, the Elector Clemens Wenceslaus of Treves, on a jour- ney in 177(1, was in Coblentz in 1786, and settled in Cologne about 1790. His pict- ures sold for considerable sums in England, Holland, and Switzerland. Works : Two Landscapes in Cologne Museum. Merlo, Nachrichten, 209. MANSKIRSCH, FRANZ JOSEF, born about 1770 or 1778, died in Dantzic in 1827. Landscape painter, son and pupil of Bernard, whom he surpassed ; went to Eng- land in 1790; was in Germany again in 1805, when the Empress Josephine ordered him to paint views around Aix-la-Chapelle and on the Rhine ; was called to Bonn in 1823, afterwards went to Memel, thence to Frank- fort, Berlin, and Dantzio, where, having be- come dest itute, he stabbed himself. Works : Castle Diirnstein on the Danube (1798) ; Two Landscapes with Oxen ; Landscape with Gothic Ruin. Merlo, Nachrichten, 271. MANSUETI, GIOVANNI, end of 15th and beginning of 16th century. Venetian school ; pupil of the Bellini in Venice. There are extant at least a dozen of his pictures, in several of which he nearly ap- proaches the excellence of Carpaccio. In his Miracle of the Gross (1493), Venice Academy, the short, square, rigid, and mo- tionless figures are mingled in the manners of Gentile Bellini and Carpaccio. In the same gallery are St. Mark curing Anianus the Cobbler ; St. Mark preaching in Alexan- dria, in which he closely approaches Car- paccio, and Glory of St. Sebastian (1500). Mansueti's latest period may be studied in a St. Jerome, and a Pieta, in the Bergamo Gallery, and in a Christ in the Temple, Uffizi, Florence. Charles Blanc places Man- sueti among the best painters of Gentile Bellini's school C. & C., N. Italy, i. 219 ; Ch. Blanc, fieole vi'nitienue ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., v. 19. MANTEGNA, ANDREA, born near Pa- dua in 1431, died in Mantua, Sept. 13, 1506. Paduan school ; history painter, pupil of Squarci- one, who adopt- ed him in 1441 ; worked at first like the realists Zoppo and Schi- avone, as his Ecce Homo, in the Communal Gallery, Padua, shows, but afterwards came so much under influence of the Florentine school, which worked at Padua through Do- natello and Uccello, and of the Venetian, through Jacopo Bellini, whose daughter Niccolosia became his wife, that Squarcione quarrelled with him. A fresco of SS. Ber- nardino and Anthony, over the high portal of his Basilica at Padua (1448), is his earli- IflO