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 *ness is shown in the use of perspective, which Masolino, like other painters of his time, had learned to apply to painting, thanks to the scientific discoveries of Brunelleschi. According to the annotators of Vasari, the baptistery frescos were painted in 1435, but C. & C. give the date of 1428 as covering these as well as those in the Collegiate Church.—C. & C., Italy, i. 499; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iii. 135; ed. Mil., ii. 263, 269; Baldinucci, i. 342; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 285; Zeitschrift f. b. K., xi. 225.

MASON, GEORGE HEMING, born at Wetley, Staffordshire, in 1818, died in London, Oct. 22, 1872. Genre and landscape painter; forsook medicine for art in 1844, travelled through Europe, and resided several years in Rome; returned in 1858 to Wetley, whence he removed to London in 1865. Elected an A.R.A. in 1869. Works: Ploughing in the Campagna (1857); Mist on the Moors (1862); Catch (1863); Return from Ploughing (1864); The Geese, The Gander (1865); Young Anglers, Yarrow (1866); Evening—Matlock (1867); Wetley Moor, Evening Hymn (1868); Dancing Girls, Only a Shower (1869); Derbyshire Landscape (1870);	Blackberry Gathering, Milkmaid (1871);	Harvest Moon (1872).—Portfolio (1871), 113; (1873), 40; Art Journal (1883), 43, 108, 185; Contemporary Rev., xxi. 724.

Mass of Bolsena, Raphael, Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican.

MASS OF BOLSENA, Raphael, Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican; fresco, dated 1512. Called also Miracle of Bolsena. In 1263, under Urban IV., a priest who doubted the reality of transubstantiation is said to have seen blood flow from the wafer, when celebrating mass in S. Cristina, Bolsena. This gave rise to the feast of Corpus Christi, instituted a.d. 1310. The priest is saying mass in the presence of Urban IV. (portrait of Julius II.), who kneels at right; behind the pope are four cardinals, and below them five of the Swiss guard; on the left are deacons and acolytes, and below them people wondering at the miracle. Typical of the vic