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 *queathed to the city the collection called after him, the Musée Fabre. Works: Neoptolemus and Ulysses taking from Philoctetes the Arrows of Hercules, Louvre; Death of Abel, Holy Family, Death of Narcissus, Musée Fabre, Montpellier; Portrait of Alfieri, do. of Countess of Albany, Uffizi, Florence; Judgment of Paris; Death of Milo; Family of Kings of Etruria (1804), Madrid Museum.—Villot, Cat. Louvre.

FABRIANO, GENTILE DA, born at Fabriano in 1370 (?), died in Rome in 1450 (?). Umbrian school. Real name Gentile di Niccolò di Giovanni Massi. Pupil probably of Allegretto Nuzi, who died when Gentile was fifteen years old; has been called both master and pupil of Fra Angelico, but rather on account of a certain superficial resemblance between them than from any real affinity. He left Fabriano some time before 1521 to become court-painter to Pandolfo Malatesta, for whom he decorated a chapel at Brescia. Thence Gentile probably went to Venice to paint a fresco of the battle between Doge Ziani and Otho, son of Barbarossa, in the Hall of the Grand Council, Palazzo Ducale, destroyed by fire in 1574. Jacopo Bellini was his pupil there and accompanied him in 1422 to Florence, where Gentile painted, the next year, his most famous picture, the Adoration of the Magi, now in the Academy, a work which entitles him to be called the Umbrian Fra Angelico. Like him, Gentile paints in the spirit of the old school, with the gay colouring of the early Umbrian masters, the profuse use of gilt relief ornament, and the somewhat formal system of composition peculiar to the Florentines before Masaccio; but pleasing and poetical as the result is, Gentile shows in it none of the deep mystical fervour of Angelico, and in this more nearly resembles Benozzo Gozzoli than his master. Among his other works Gentile painted a charming fresco of the Madonna at Orvieto (1426), being on his way to Rome. He remained in the latter city until his death, and executed many masterpieces for Popes Martin V. and Eugenius IV., which have all perished. Among his other works are: Coronation of the Virgin with Saints, and a predella with five subjects, Brera, Milan; Virgin adoring the Infant Jesus, hall of the Pia Casa, and Adoration of the Magi, S. Domenico, Pisa; Virgin enthroned with Saints and a Donor, Berlin Museum.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 95, N. Italy, i. 106; Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 5, 15; Bernasconi, Studii, 51; Burckhardt, 555, 588; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Siret, 358; Cibo, Niccolò Alunno e la Scuola Umbra (Roma, 1872), 20, 53; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 213.

FABRITIUS, BERNART, born about 1620, died after 1669. Dutch school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Rembrandt, whom in his portraits he imitated successfully; received into guild at Leyden in 1658. Works: Portrait of Young Man (1650), Birth of John Baptist (1669), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Goliath (1657), Camberlyn Collection, Brussels; St. Peter in House of Cornelius (1653), Brunswick Museum; Presentation in the Temple (1668), Copenhagen Gallery; Herodias receiving the Head of John the Baptist, Amsterdam Museum (under Drost); Bust of Shepherd, Vienna Academy; Adoration of Shepherds, Birth of John Baptist, Cassel Gallery; Portrait of Young Man (1650), (?) Old Pinakothek, Munich; Family Repast (1650), Alchymist in his Laboratory, Stockholm Museum.—Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 284; Burger, Musées, ii. 166, 170; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iii. 290; xvi. 404; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), viii. 186; (1864), xvi. 77; (1865), xviii. 80; (1874), x. 408; Havard, A. & A. Holl., iv. 53; Jour. des B. Arts (1868), 13, 27.

FABRITIUS, KAREL, born in 1624, killed Oct. 12, 1654, by the explosion of a powder magazine at Delft, while painting the portrait of Simon Decker, sacristan of the old church. Dutch school; pupil of Rembrandt and painter of the first order, especially in portraits. Works: Male Portrait, Rotterdam Museum; do., Berlin Museum; do. (attributed), Cologne Museum; The Gold Finch (1654), Aremberg Gallery,