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 of Cato of Utica, John of Nepomuk before King Wenceslaus, Schleissheim Gallery; Achilles with the Daughters of Lycomedes, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; The Virgin in Glory, Schwerin Gallery; Scene from Tasso's Jerusalem, Museum, Vienna; Venus bidding Cupid to wound Adonis, Harrach Gallery, ib.; Triumph of Galatea (1692), Milan Academy; Adoration of the Shepherds, The Paradise, Naples Museum.—Goethe, Winckelmann, ii. 73; Lanzi (Roscoe), ii. 59.

MATTEO DI GIOVANNI di Bartolo, born about 1435, died in 1495. Sienese school; sometimes called Matteo da Siena. Though far behind the Florentines, he was the best Sienese painter of his time, and may be said to have adopted the manner of Sano di Pietro, and improved it by modernizing it. His oldest authentic picture, Virgin enthroned with Angels (1470), is in the Siena Academy; his masterpiece, the Madonna della Neve (Madonna of the Snow), dated 1477, in S. M. della Neve, Siena; his St. Barbara (1479), in S. Domenico, Siena; Madonna with Saints, in a chapel of same church; Adoration of the Virgin, Siena Academy; and his Madonnas in the Palazzo Pubblico and Palazzo Tolomei, Siena, and in the Duomo, Pienza, are also favourable examples. He was less successful in scenes requiring action, as in his Massacres of the Innocents, which are melodramatic and full of exaggerated sentiment pushed to the verge of grimace. One of them (1482) is in S. Agostino of Siena, another (1491) in S. M. de' Servi of Siena, and a third in the Naples Museum. Matteo designed three subjects for the pavement of the Cathedral, Siena, namely: the Samian Sibyl, the Deliverance of Bethulia, and the Massacre of the Innocents. In the National Gallery, London, are an Ecce Homo and an Assumption.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 81; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., vi. 186; Rio, 104; Lübke, Gesch. d. ital. Mal., i. 387.

MATTEO DA SIENA. See Matteo di Giovanni.

MATTESON, TOMPKINS H., born at Peterborough, N. Y., May 9, 1813, died at Sherborne, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1884. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of the National Academy, in New York, of which he became an associate in 1841, but did not exhibit after 1869. Works: Portrait of Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall, New York; Spirit of '76, American Art Union; Pilgrim Fathers; On the Deck of the Mayflower, J. A. Brown, Providence; Examination of a Witch, W. D. White, Albany; Justice's Court; Captain Glen claiming the Prisoners after the Burning of Schenectady, J. W. Beekman Collection, New York; Foddering Cattle, At the Stile (1869).—Tuckerman, 432.

MATTHÄI, FRIEDRICH, born at Meissen, Saxony, March 4, 1777, died in Vienna, Oct. 23, 1845. History and portrait painter, son of the sculptor Johann Gottlob Matthäi, pupil of Dresden Academy under Casanova, then in Vienna of Füger; was in Florence and Rome in 1802-8; after his return, in 1808, became professor at Dresden Academy, and in 1823 inspector of the Gallery. Works: Death of King Codrus, Ægisthus slain by Orestes, Dresden Museum; Christ Blessing Little Children; Baptism of Christ, Wurzen Cathedral; Last Supper; Death of Codrus.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xx. 606; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1845), 424; (1846), 10; N. Necrol. der D. (1845), ii. 814.

MATTHES VON ASCHAFFENBURG. See Grünewald, Matthias.

MATTHEW, ST., AND ANGEL, Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Berlin Museum. St. Matthew writing; an angel guides his hand. Formerly in S. Luigi de' Francesi, Rome; afterwards in Giustiniani Collection up to 1815.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 622.

MATTHEW, ST., CALLING OF, Lodovico Carracci, Bologna Gallery; canvas, H. 12 ft. 9 in. × 8 ft. 1 in. Christ bidding Matthew, the publican, to follow him; the latter obeys, with bowed head, to the astonishment of those around, who evidently wonder that he should give up a lucrative business for poverty. Painted for church