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 *ing Relays, Talbot (1885); A Fatal Meeting, Valet with Dogs (1886); Stag and Hounds, H. Probasco, Cincinnati.—Bellier, ii. 66; Vapereau.

MÉLINGUE, (ÉTIENNE) LUCIEN, born in Paris, Dec. 28, 1841. History and landscape painter, pupil of Léon Cogniet and Gérôme. Medal, 1st class, 1877; L. of Honour, 1880. Works: Souvenir of Veules (1861); Courtyard in Normandy (1863); Ceres with the Old Woman (1870); August 24, 1572 (1873); Members of the Third Estate before the Meeting of June 23, 1789 (1874); May 13, 1588 (1875); Brantôme's Fourth Discourse of Dames galantes (1876); Morning of the 10th Thermidor (1877); Mlle. de Montpensier in the Bastille (1878); Stephen Marcel and the Dauphin (1879), Luxembourg Museum; Marat (1880); Marshal Ferté capturing Belfort, After the Battle (1881); General Daumesnil at Vincennes (1882); Rouget de Lisle composing the Marseillaise (1883); Desgenettes inoculating himself with the Plague (1884); Roustan (1885).—Bellier, ii. 66; Larousse; D. Rundschau, xx. 476.

MELONE, ALTOBELLO, end of 15th and beginning of 16th century. Lombard school; probably studied in Bologna and Ferrara. He was Boccaccino's competitor before Pordenone's arrival in Cremona. His seven frescos of scenes in lives of Virgin and of Christ (1517) are in the nave of the Duomo, Cremona, and his Christ on the Road to Emmaus is in the National Gallery, London. He was not without power as a portrait painter, and some of his works have been assigned to great men: one, in the Stuttgart Museum, to Giovanni Bellini; another, in the Lochis Carrara Collection, Bergamo, to Giorgione; and a third, in the Castelbarco Collection, Milan, to Raphael.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 451; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 559; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., 223, 251; Ch. Blanc, École lombarde; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 480.

MELOZZO DA FORLI, born at Forli, June 6, 1438, died there, Nov. 8, 1494. Umbrian school; contemporary of Mantegna, whose influence he may have felt, but owed his advancement to Piero della Francesca, of whom he was perhaps a pupil. He had, however, a higher sense of beauty and of dramatic life, and his draperies are richer and more ample than those of Piero, who excelled him in colour. Melozzo was called to Rome by Sixtus IV., and painted (1475-80) in fresco, in the Vatican Library, an Audience of Sixtus IV., now transferred to canvas and in the Vatican Gallery, which is remarkable for fine characteristic portraiture, rich architectural background, and harmonious colour. Part of another fresco, Christ among Angels, formerly in SS. Apostoli, Rome, is now on the staircase of the Quirinal; and there are seven fragments of Angels playing and singing, together with four heads of Apostles, in the sacristy of St. Peter's. His works are marked by masterly drawing, bold foreshortening, and good perspective. Many of the pictures in galleries, attributed to him, are of doubtful authenticity. Among those which may be considered genuine, as they are admirable, are the allegorical representations of the Arts and Sciences, which probably originally decorated the library in the Ducal Palace, Urbino. Of this series, one is in the Berlin Museum; two, Rhetoric and Music, in the National Gallery, London; and one, Duke Frederic with his son Guidobaldo and Vittorio da Feltre his Tutor, at Windsor.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 556; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 190; Burckhardt, 559; Lermolieff, 277; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal, i.. 399; Gaz. des B. Arts (1875), xii. 369.

MELZI, FRANCESCO, born in Milan in 1492, died after 1568. Lombard school; pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, and one of his most devoted disciples; an amateur of a rich and noble family. Accompanied his master to France, and was made heir of his designs and manuscripts. His pictures are so like Da Vinci's in manner as to be mistaken for them. A Vertumnus and Pomona, Berlin Museum, formerly attributed to Leo