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 MEMMI flamande, 85 ; do., Decouverte d'un tableau date de Hans Mcmling (Brussels, 1883) ; AVeale, Cat. Bruges Acad., 20 ; do., Hans Mcmling, zyn leven, etc. (Bruges, 1871) ; AV. & AV., ii. ii ; Art Journal (1885), 318. MEMMI, LI1TO, died in 135G. Sienese .school ; an artist of the same scliool as his greater brother-in-law, Simone di Martino, with whom he had a common workshop in Siena. Though at times content to labor on the mechanical part of Simone's altar- pieces, he frequently undertook separate commissions, the most important of which was the adornment of the Palazzo del Po- desta at S. Gimignano in 1317. The spirit and composition of this work much resem- bles that of Simone ; but it is remarkable for the minuteness of its finish, every hair and every ornamental detail being patiently worked out. Lippo also aided Simoue in the painting of the Annunciation, now in the Uffi/.i, Florence. Other examples of his j work are a Madonna with Saints, in the Pa- lazzo Pubblico, S. Gimignano ; a Madonna and Angels, in the Chapel of the Santissimo Corporate, at Orvieto ; the Beato Augustine, in S. Agostino, Siena ; a Madonna, in the Berlin Museum ; and a Resurrection, in the Dresden Gallery. C. & C., Italy, ii. 101 ; Va- sari, ed. LeMon., ii. 87, n. 3, 94 ; AV. & AV., i. 4G6 ; Dohme, 2i.; Zeitsclir. f. b. K, v. 234. MEMMI, SIMONE. See Simon* di Mar- tini. MENABOI, GIUSTO DI GIOVANNI, second half of 14th century ; dead in 1397. Florentine school ; pupil probably of Gio- vanni da Milano ; name in register of Flor- entine painters in 1387, but afterwards a resident of Padua. A Madonna Enthroned, dated 13G3, is at Milan, and a Coronation of the Virgin, dated 13G7, in the National Gallery, London. Frescos attributed to him are in the Baptistery, Padua, and an altar- piece in the adjoining chapel ; and other frescos in the Luca Belludi Chapel, Padua, and in the Einucciui Chapel, S. Croce, Flor- ence. He was a feeble continuator of the style of Giotto, whose colouring is bright and well fused, but whose drawing, expres- sion, and choice of motives are dull and clumsy. C. & C., Italy, ii. 248 ; Kunstblatt (1838), No. 13 ; AV. & AA 7 ., i. 484. MEXENDEZ, Don LUIS, born at Naples in 1716, died at Madrid in 1780. Spanish school ; history and fruit painter, son and pupil of Francisco Antonio Menendez (a successful miniature painter, 1G82-1745) ; then studied in Rome, and, visiting Naples, was appointed painter in ordinary to King Charles ; on his return to Madrid, Ferdinand VI. employed him to illuminate the choir- books of the royal chapel. His favourite subjects were bodegones, in the deline- ation of which he has rarely been excelled. AVorks : Holy Family, Madonna, thirty- nine Bodegones and Fruitpieces, Madrid Museum. Stirling, iii. 1219. MENESES OSORIO, FRANCISCO, born at Seville about 1630, died there about 1705. Spanish school ; pupil of Muriilo, his favour- ite assistant, and one of his best copyists ; painted the glory in the Marriage of St. Catherine, which cost Muriilo his life, and also the four lateral pictures. Some works ascribed to his master were probably exe- cuted by him. He was a member of the i Academy of Seville from 1G6G to 1673, and of a Hermit, Last Judgment, Cadiz Muse- um ; Virgin appearing to St. Cayetano, Church of La Merced, Cadiz ; Institution of Third Order of St. Francis, Seville Mu- seum ; Christ in A y|J t - Garden of Olives, /VJ J Y^A-/ Due de Montpen- Stirling, iii. 1103 ; Ch. Blanc, ICcole espa- gnole ; Cean Bermudez ; Curtis, 331. MENESTRATUS, painter, 1st century A.D. His pictures were ridiculed in an epi- gram in the Greek anthology by Lucillius, who says his Phaethon was only fit for the fire and his Deucalion for the water. Brunn (ii. 310) thinks it doubtful whether bad trag- edies rather than pictures are not here re- ferred to. 242
 * its Mayordomo in 1GG8-G9. AVorks : Death
 * sier, S. Telmo.