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 *tory of the church over scepticism. Engraved by R. Morghen; Volpato; Aquila; P. Fidanza.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 342; Müntz, 362; Passavant, ii. 132; Springer, 199; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 433; Perkins, 137.

MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS, Garofalo, Ferrara Gallery; wood, H. 8 ft. × 6 ft. 3 in. Painted in 1519 for Cappella Festini in S. Francesco, Ferrara. Highly praised by Vasari.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 464; Baruffaldi, i. 326.

Massacre of Innocents, Guido Reni, Bologna Gallery.

By Guido Reni, Bologna Gallery; canvas, H. 8 ft. 2 in. × 5 ft. 3 in. Herod's soldiers slaying children in a court; above, two boy angels with palms. Fine colour and action, but too crowded. Formerly in S. Domenico, Bologna; carried to Paris in 1796; returned in 1815. Engraved by Bolognini; Bartolozzi; Rosaspina.—Pinac. di Bologna, Pl. 7; Landon, Musée, xiv. Pl. 9; Lavice, 13.

By Rubens, Munich Gallery; wood, H. 6 ft. 3 in. × 9 ft. 5 in. An excellent picture in the artist's free or bravura manner. Engraved by P. Pontius; Depuis.—Smith, ii. 72.

By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. The outer vestibule of a palace, with a flight of stairs, down which rush a crowd of women mixed with the murderers; one woman dashes herself down head-foremost, dragging her child with her; in front, a great struggle, with a confused heap of mothers and of the slain; in background, women fleeing pursued by soldiers.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 328; Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne.

By Daniele da Volterra, Uffizi, Florence; wood, small figures. A fine composition, with numerous figures. Formerly in Cathedral of Volterra; purchased in 1782.

MASSACRE OF MACHÉCOUL, François Flameng, Paris; canvas, H. 20 ft. × 30 ft. Illustration of a scene in the war of La Vendée in 1793. Under the walls of a castle lie many bodies, men and women together, ghastly and contorted with the agonies of death; at the left, an old man tied to a tree, the blood oozing from his wounds; in centre, a group of aristocrats, the lord of the manor and his lady friends, daintily picking their way over the blood-stained ground. A disagreeable but masterly picture. Salon, 1884.—Art Journal (1884), 180.

MASSARI, LUCIO, born at Bologna in 1569, died there in 1633. Bolognese school; history painter, pupil of Bartolommeo Passarotti and opponent of the Carracci, but afterwards became a zealous adherent of Lodovico Carracci and went to Rome, where he studied after the antique and the great masters. Works: Madonna with St. John, Uffizi, Florence; St. Clara with the Holy Sacrament driving off Invading Saracens, Return of Prodigal Son, Angel presenting Purified Soul to the Holy Trinity, Pietà, Pinacoteca, Bologna; Four pictures from Life of St. Benedict, S. Michele, ib.; others at the Benedictines and Carthusians, ib.

MASSI, GENTILE DI NICCOLÒ. See Gentile da Fabriano.