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 MASSACRE tory of the church over scepticism. En- graved by R. Morghen ; Volpato ; Aquila ; P. Fidanza. Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 342; Miintz, 302; Passavant, ii. 132 ; Springer, 199 ; Kug- ler (Eastlake), ii. 433 ; Perkins, 137. MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS, Garofalo, Fernira Gallery ; wood, H. 8 ft. x 6 ft. 3 in. Painted in 1519 for Cappella Festini in S. Francesco, Ferrara. Highly praised by Va- sari. Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 4G4 ; Baruffaldi, i. 32G. By (ri/ii/u Reni, Bologna Gallery ; canvas, H. 8 ft. 2 in. x 5 ft. 3 in. Herod's soldiers "^"S" ' v ' ' V ' "', - --;;' ' M

, 6 / V' -: *- Massacre of Innocents, Guido Reni, Bologna Gallery. slaying children in a court ; above, two boy angels with palms. Fine colour and action, but too crowded. Formerly in S. Domeuico, Bologna ; carried to Paris in 1796 ; returned in 1815. Engraved by Bolognini ; Barto- lozzi ; Rosaspina. Pinac. di Bologna, PI. 7 ; Landon, Musce, xiv. PI. 9 ; Lavice, 13. By Rubens, Munich Gallery ; wood, H. 6 ft. 3 in. x 9 ft. 5 in. An excellent picture in 1 the artist's free or bravura manner. En- graved by P. Pontius ; Depuis. Smith, ii. 72. By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice ; canvas. The outer vestibule of a palace, with a flight of stairs, down which rush a crowd of women mixed with the murderers ; one woman dashes herself down head-fore- most, dragging her child with her ; in front, j a great struggle, with a confused heap of I mothers and of the slain ; in background, women fleeing pursued by soldiers. Rus- kin, Stones of Venice, iii. 328 ; Ch. Blanc, ' Ecole venitienne. By Daniele da Volterra, Uffizi, Florence ; wood, small figures. A fine composition, with numerous figures. Formerly in Cathe- dral of Volterra ; purchased in 1782. MASSACRE OF MACHKCOUL, Fran- yois Flameny, Paris ; canvas, H. 20 ft. x 30 ft. Illustration of a scene in the war of La Vendee in 1793. Under the walls of a castle lie many bodies, men and women together, ghastly and contorted with the agonies of death ; at the left, an old man tied to a tree, the blood oozing from his wounds ; in cen- tre, a group of aristocrats, the lord of the manor and his lady friends, daintily picking their way over the blood-stained ground. A disagreeable but masterly picture. Salon, 1884. Art Journal (1884), 180. MASSARI, LUCIO, born at Bologna in 15G9, died there in 1G33. Bolognese school ; history painter, pupil of Bartolommeo Pas- sarotti and opponent of the Carracci, but afterwards became a zealous adherent of Lodovico Carracci and went to Rome, where he studied after the antique and the great masters. Works : Madonna with St. John, Uffizi, Florence ; St. Clara with the Holy Sacrament driving off Invading Saracens, Return of Prodigal Son, Angel presenting Purified Soul to the Holy Trinity, Pieta, Pinacoteca, Bologna ; Four pictures from Life of St. Benedict, S. Michele, ib. ; others at the Benedictines and Carthusians, ib. MASSI, GENTILE DI NICCOLO. See Gentile da Fabriano. 216