Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 3.djvu/321

 MIXOR Nympli ; Maximilian I. (dining-room, Im- perial Palace, Vienna). Muller, 372. MINOR, EOBEET C., born in New York in 1840. Landscape painter, pupil of Diaz in Paris and of Van Luppeu and Boulanger in Antwerp. Sketched in Germany and Italy. Exhibits at the National Academy. Member of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works : Dawn ; Stu- dio of Corot ; Landscape, T. B. Clarke, New York ; Sundown ; Stream (1879) ; October Days, Evening (1880); Evening Star (1881); Vale of Kennet, Edge of the Wood (1882) ; Interior of the Forest, Morning in June (1883); Evening, Twilight, Wold of Kent- England (1884) ; Twilight, Cradle of the Hudson, Sunrise on Lake Champlain (1885); Autumn Morning, Evening after Rain, Close of Day (188G). MINOTAUR, WRECK OF THE, Joseph M. W. Turner, Earl of Yarborough ; can- vas. The Minotaur, a 74-gun ship, with 600 men on board, was wrecked on the Haaks Bank, Dutch coast, Dec. 22, 1810 ; only 110 persons saved, landed on the Texel and made prisoners. The ship lies on her side, with only the stumps of her masts standing ; enormous waves dash against her from behind, and the foreground is filled with wreckage, to which many of the crew are clinging ; several Dutch craft are trying to rescue the survivors. One of Turner's masterpieces. Painted in 1811 for first Lord Yarborough. Engraved by T. O. Bar- low. Athen., Jan., 1875 ; Waagen, Art Treasures, iv. 70. MINTROP, THEODOR, born at Bark- enhofen, near Werden on the Ruhr, Rhenish- Prussia, April 7, 1814, died in Diisseldorf, June 30, 1870. His- tory and genre paint- er, son of a peasant, at first self-taught, then, brought to Diis- seldorf by Eduard Geselsohap, pupil of the Academy under Karl Sohn, where his unusual talent was rapidly developed and widely noticed after the exhibition of his first pictures. Works : Madonna with St. John (1852), Diisseldorf Gallery ; Madonna with SS. Ludgerius and Benedict (1856-59) ; Maywine Bowl (1869), Cologne Museum. In fresco : Frieze with the Seasons ; Four Elements ; Trade and Industry ; Four Species of Music ; Scenes from Life of Apollo ; Triumph of Aurora. Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 771 ; Art Journal (1870), 308 ; Blanckarts, 36 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1871), i. 291; (1874), ii. 494 ; (1875), i. 227 ; Kunst-Chronik, i. 136 ; v. 160 ; ix. 459 ; ' f. b. K, vi. 104 ; x. 128. MIRACLE OF THE CROSS. See CW.<. MIRACLE OF THE CURE, Gentile Jid- liiri, Venice Academy ; canvas, H. 10 ft. x (?); signed. Pietro di Lodovico kneeling before an altar in an octagon shrine in a choir to be cured by the relic of the cross, which is presented by a brother ; groups of specta- tors in front. Painted about 1494 for the Scuolii of S. Giovanni Evangelists. Much injured by repainting. C. it C., N. Italy, i. 129 ; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 82. MIRACLE OF LOAVES AND FISHES, Murillo, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville ; canvas, H. 11 ft. 6 in. x 18 ft. Christ, seat- ed on a rock in a hilly landscape, with a loaf in his hands, is surrounded by the Dis- ciples, one of whom lays four loaves in the Saviour's lap ; a boy approaches with two fishes in a basket ; the multitude seated on the right. Painted in 1670-74 for the hos- pital ; companion to J/ose,s striking the Rock. Engraved by J. G. Levasseur ; Boilly. Cur- tis, 191 ; C. Bermudez, Carta, 74 ; Stirling, ii. 852. By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice ; canvas. Christ, the Disciples, and the crowd of seven thousand poorly represented by twenty-one figures ; the landscape, the slope of a woody hill, is grand. Ruskiu, Stones of Venice, iii. 339. MIRACLE OF THE SLAVE. See Mark, St., Miracle of. 275
 * Wolfg. Mttller, Dusseldf. K, 56 ; Zeitschr.