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 MECKEL, ADOLF VON, born at Carlsruhe; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Hans Gude; travelled in the East. Gold medal. Works: Kalaat and Akabat, Spring in Palestine (1884); Evening near the Dead Sea (1885); On the Source of the Elisa near Jericho, Storm (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).

MECKLENBURG, LUDWIG, born in Hamburg, Sept. 15, 1820, died in Munich, June 11, 1882. Architecture painter, settled in 1843 in Munich; was especially successful in representations of night effects. Works: Crossway in S. Zeno, Verona (1847), Venice (1861), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Cloister of S. Bernardino, Verona (1860); Cloister in Brixen; View near Rialto Bridge by Moonlight; View in Venice at Noon; View in St. Mark's; Doge's Palace in Starlight; S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice; S. Maria della Salute, ib.; Riva degli Schiavoni, ib.; Market Square in Lübeck; Piazza delle Erbe, Verona; Interior of S. Anastasia, ib.; Canal in Venice by Moonlight (1856), Neuturm and Kostthor—Munich, Angerthor, ib. (1872), New Pinakothek, Munich; Canal grande—Venice, Mrs. D. D. Colton, San Francisco.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 266; Allgem. Zeit., July 3, 1882, Beilage, 184; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 610; Müller, 361.

MECUCCIO. See Beccafumi.

MÉDARD, EUGÈNE, born in Paris; contemporary. History and genre painter, pupil of Cogniet, Sebastien Cornu, and Gérôme. Medal, 3d class, 1879; 2d class, 1886. Works: Separation of Orpheus and Eurydice (1870); Bivouac near Château de Buzenval (1873); Birds'-Nester (1874); Consecration of St. Geneviève, Offering to Venus (1875); Scouts in December 1870, Cupid fleeing from Psyche (1876); Attack of a Village, 1870 (1877); Triumph of Silenus (1878); A Retreat (1879, bought by State); Defence of Belfort in 1870-1871 (1880); General Lecourbe defending Belfort in 1815 (1881), Hôtel de Ville, Belfort; Reinforcements ariving on Battlefield (1881); Attack of a Village in 1870 (1883).—Bellier, ii. 64.

MEDEA (Médée furieuse), Eugène Delacroix, Lille Museum; canvas, H. 8 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. 5 in.; signed, dated 1838. Medea, pursued, is about to slay her children. She is seated near the entrance of a cavern holding the struggling little ones with one hand and a dagger in the other; looking back over her shoulder with a defiant air, as if awaiting her pursuers. Salon, 1838; Exposition universelle, 1855. Replica (1863); Pereire Collection, Paris; then Laurent-Richard Collection; another, Arras Museum. Sketches, Lille Museum. Engraved by Charles Geoffroy; Milius; Feyen-Perrin. Lithographed by Challemel; Alophe; Lassalle.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1864), xvi. 196; (1873), vii. 184; Chesneau, L'Œuvre de Delacroix, 181.

MEDEA, ancient picture. See Aristolaus, Timomachus.

MEDICI, GIULIANO DE', portrait, Raphael, lost (?). Youngest brother of Pope Leo X., who made him, in 1515, Captain General of the Church. He married the aunt of Francis I., who gave him the title of Duc de Nemours. Raphael painted him in 1513 and again in 1514. Copy by Alessandro Allori in the Uffizi; another in collection of Grand Duchess Marie, St. Petersburg.—Passavant, ii. 145; Müntz, 410; Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 352; Springer, 253.

MEDICI, IPPOLITO DE', Cardinal, portrait, Titian, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 4 in. In Hungarian costume. Painted about 1533. Copy in Louvre (by Battista Franco?); three-fourths figure, turned to left, red bonnet with feathers and a jewelled clasp, collar of red garment turned up. Collection of Louis XIV. Titian painted a second portrait of him in armour, which Vasari mentions, but it is lost. Engraved by Sivalli.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 441; C. & C., Titian, i. 377; Filhol, i. Pl. 41; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iii. Pl. 121; Mündler, 214.