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 Assisi; Spoleto Cathedral; Death of St. Augustine.—L'illustr. italiana, 1875; Ranzi, Les beaux arts italiens.

MANCINI, ANTONIO, born at Narni, Province Perugia, Italy. Genre painter, pupil of Morelli and of Lista; Studio in Paris. Paints realistic scenes from the life of the lower classes. Works: Last Slumber, Children going to School (1872); Little Scholar 1876); Little Mountebank (1877); Feast of St. Januarius at Naples, Sailor's Daughter (1878).—L'Art (1878), iii. 242.

MANCINI, FRANCESCO GIOVANNI, born at Naples, Jan. 23, 1829. Landscape painter, pupil of Naples Academy and of Gabriele Smargiassi; visited Central and North Italy, Paris, London, and Vienna. Medal, Order of Italian Crown in 1868. Works: Return from Madonna Festival, Naples Museum; Rocky Landscape; Street in Torre dell' Annunziata; Street in Pompeii; Street in Pozzuoli; Marine View of Casamicciola in Ischia; Road in the Abruzzi, Marine View of Capri (1880); London Amazon, Hyde Park, Stone-Breaker (1883).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 116; Müller, 350.

MANDER, KAREL VAN, the elder, born at Meulenbecke, Flanders, in 1548, died in Amsterdam, Sept. 2, 1606. Flemish school; pupil of Lucas de Heere in Ghent, afterwards of Pieter Vlerick at Courtrai. Went in 1573 to Rome, where he stayed three years, and on his return painted (1577) in Basle; accompanied Spranger to Vienna, where he assisted in decorating the triumphal arch for the returning Emperor Rudolph; returned to his native place, but was soon compelled by the Spanish disturbances to flee to Courtrai, whence, in 1582, he went to Bruges, and in 1583 settled at Haarlem; with Goltzius and Cornelis Corneliszen, founded an academy for drawing from life; moved to Amsterdam in 1604. The subjects of his mannered pictures are partly historical and mythological, partly landscape and genre. His "Het Schilder Boek," which forms the basis for the history of art in the Netherlands, is his chief title to remembrance. Works: Decorated Shield (1596), Haarlem Museum; The Deluge, Schleissheim Gallery; Male Portrait, Vienna Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xx. 174; Engerth, Belved. gal., ii. 253; Immerzeel, ii. 197; Kugler (Crowe), i. 242; Kramm, iv. 1051; Michiels, vi. 76; Nagler, Mon., iv. 232; Sandrart, ii. 276; Schnaase, viii. 108; Quellenschriften, 109.

MANDER, KAREL VAN, the younger, born at Courtrai in 1579, died at Delft after 1665. Dutch school; son and probably pupil of Karel the elder. In 1616 Christian IV., wishing to have the principal events of the war against Sweden in 1613 represented in tapestry for the Castle of Fredriksborg, called Karel the younger to Copenhagen, where he made the cartoons for this work, which his son Karel the third (born at Delft about 1610, died at Copenhagen in 1672), who became court-painter to King Christian, completed. The latter painted historical and genre pictures and excellent portraits. Works: Family Group, Kunsthalle, Hamburg. By Karel the third: Finding of the Danish Prince Svend's Body (after Tasso), Tartar Embassy in Copenhagen (1655), Peter's Repentance, Sight, Hearing, Portrait of Admiral Ove Gjedde (?), Gallery, Copenhagen; Aaron as High Priest, Moltke Collection, ib.; Portraits of Governors of Fortress Akershus (2), Christiania Gallery; Portrait of Christian IV., Berlin Museum.—Allgem.