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 MATTEO of Cato of Utica, John of Nepomuk before King AVenceslaus, Schleissheim Gallery ; Achilles with the Daughters of Lycomedes, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; The Virgin in Glory, Schwerin Gallery ; Scene from las- so's Jerusalem, Museum, Vienna ; Venus bidding Cupid to wound Adonis, Harrach Gallery, ib.; Triumph of Galatea (1G92), Milan Academy ; Adoration of the Shep- herds, The Paradise, Naples Museum. Goethe, Winckehnann, ii. 7:5 ; Lanzi (Ros- eoe), ii. 59. MATTEO DI GIOVANNI di Bartolo, born about 1435, died in 1495. Hienese school ; sometimes called Matteo da Siena. Though far behind the Florentines, he was the best Sicnese painter of his time, and may be said to have adopted the manner of Sano di Pietro, and improved it by modern- izing it. His oldest authentic picture, Vir- gin enthroned with Angels (1470), is in the Siena Academy ; his masterpiece, the Ma- donna della Neve (Madonna of the Snow), dated 1477, in S. M. della Neve, Siena ; his St. Barbara (147!)), in S. Domenico, Siena ; Madonna with Saints, in a chapel of same church ; Adoration of the Virgin, Siena Academy ; and his Madonnas in the Palazzo Pubblico and Palazzo Tolomei, Siena, and in the Duomo, Pien/.a, are also favourable examples. He was less successful in scenes requiring action, as in his Massacres of the Innocents, which are melodramatic and full of exaggerated sentiment pushed to the verge of grimace. One of them (1482) is in S. Agostino of Siena, another (1491) in S. M. de' Servi of Siena, and a third in the Naples Museum. Matteo designed three subjects for the pavement of the Cathedral, Siena, namely : the Samian Sibyl, the De- liverance of Bethulia, and the Massacre of the Innocents. In the National Gallery, London, are an Ecce Homo and an As- sumption. C. & C., Italy, iii. 81 ; Vasari, ed. Le Hon., vi. 180 ; Rio, 104 ; Liibke, Gesch. d. ital. Mai., i. 387. MATTEO DA SIENA. See Matteo di Giovanni. MATTESON, TOMPKINS H., born at Peterborough, N. ., May 0, 1813, died at Sherborne, N. ., Feb. 2, 1884. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of the National Academy, in New York, of which he became an associate in 1841, but did riot exhibit after 18G9. Works : Portrait of Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall, New York ; Spirit of '76, American Art Union ; Pilgrim Fathers ; On the Deck of the Mayflower, J. A. Brown, Providence ; Examination of a Witch, W. D. White, Albany ; Justice's Court ; Cap- tain Glen claiming the Prisoners after the Burning of Schenectady, J. W. Beekman Collection, New York ; Foddering Cattle, At the Stile (18(59). Tuckerman, 432. MATTHAI, FRIEDRICH, born at Meis- sen, Saxony, March 4, 1777, died in Vienna, Oct. 23, 1845. History and portrait painter, son of the sculptor Johann Gottlob Matthai, pupil of Dresden Academy under Casanova, then in Vienna of Fiiger ; was in Florence and Rome in 1802-8 ; after his return, in 1808, became professor at Dresden Acad- emy, and in 1823 inspector of the Gallery. Works : Death of King Codrus, ^Egisthus slain by Orestes, Dresden Museum ; Christ Blessing Little Children ; Baptism of Christ, Wurzen Cathedral ; Last Supper ; Death of Codrus. Allgem. d. Biogr., xx. GOG ; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1845), 424 ; (184G), 10 ; N. Necrol. der D. (1845), ii. 814. MATTHES VON ASCHAFFENBURG. See Qritnewdld, Matthias. MATTHEW, ST., AND ANGEL, Michel- angelo da Carauarjijio, Berlin Museum. St. Matthew writing ; an angel guides his hand. Formerly in S. Luigi de' Francesi, Rome ; afterwards in Giustiniaui Collection up to 1815. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., i. 622. MATTHEW, ST., CALLING OF, Lodo- vico Carratri, Bologna Gallery ; canvas, H. 12 ft. 9 in. x 8 ft, 1 in. Christ bidding Mat- thew, the publican, to follow him ; the lat- ter obeys, with bowed head, to the aston- ishment of those around, who evidently wonder that he should give up a lucrative business for poverty. Painted for church