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 flamande, 85; do., Découverte d'un tableau daté de Hans Memling (Brussels, 1883); Weale, Cat. Bruges Acad., 20; do., Hans Memling, zyn leven, etc. (Bruges, 1871); W. & W., ii. 44; Art Journal (1885), 318.

MEMMI, LIPPO, died in 1356. Sienese school; an artist of the same school as his greater brother-in-law, Simone di Martino, with whom he had a common workshop in Siena. Though at times content to labor on the mechanical part of Simone's altarpieces, he frequently undertook separate commissions, the most important of which was the adornment of the Palazzo del Podesta at S. Gimignano in 1317. The spirit and composition of this work much resembles that of Simone; but it is remarkable for the minuteness of its finish, every hair and every ornamental detail being patiently worked out. Lippo also aided Simone in the painting of the Annunciation, now in the Uffizi, Florence. Other examples of his work are a Madonna with Saints, in the Palazzo Pubblico, S. Gimignano; a Madonna and Angels, in the Chapel of the Santissimo Corporale, at Orvieto; the Beato Augustino, in S. Agostino, Siena; a Madonna, in the Berlin Museum; and a Resurrection, in the Dresden Gallery.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 101; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ii. 87, n. 3, 94; W. & W., i. 466; Dohme, 2i.; Zeitschr. f. b. K., v. 234.

MEMMI, SIMONE. See Simone di Martini.

MENABOI, GIUSTO DI GIOVANNI, second half of 14th century; dead in 1397. Florentine school; pupil probably of Giovanni da Milano; name in register of Florentine painters in 1387, but afterwards a resident of Padua. A Madonna Enthroned, dated 1363, is at Milan, and a Coronation of the Virgin, dated 1367, in the National Gallery, London. Frescos attributed to him are in the Baptistery, Padua, and an altarpiece in the adjoining chapel; and other frescos in the Luca Belludi Chapel, Padua, and in the Rinuccini Chapel, S. Croce, Florence. He was a feeble continuator of the style of Giotto, whose colouring is bright and well fused, but whose drawing, expression, and choice of motives are dull and clumsy.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 248; Kunstblatt (1838), No. 13; W. & W., i. 484.

MENENDEZ, Don LUIS, born at Naples in 1716, died at Madrid in 1780. Spanish school; history and fruit painter, son and pupil of Francisco Antonio Menendez (a successful miniature painter, 1682-1745); then studied in Rome, and, visiting Naples, was appointed painter in ordinary to King Charles; on his return to Madrid, Ferdinand VI. employed him to illuminate the choir-*books of the royal chapel. His favourite subjects were bodegones, in the delineation of which he has rarely been excelled. Works: Holy Family, Madonna, thirty-*nine Bodegones and Fruitpieces, Madrid Museum.—Stirling, iii. 1219.

MENESES OSORIO, FRANCISCO, born at Seville about 1630, died there about 1705. Spanish school; pupil of Murillo, his favourite assistant, and one of his best copyists; painted the glory in the Marriage of St. Catherine, which cost Murillo his life, and also the four lateral pictures. Some works ascribed to his master were probably executed by him. He was a member of the Academy of Seville from 1666 to 1673, and its Mayordomo in 1668-69. Works: Death of a Hermit, Last Judgment, Cadiz Museum; Virgin appearing to St. Cayetano, Church of La Merced, Cadiz; Institution of Third Order of St. Francis, Seville Museum; Christ in Garden of Olives, Duc de Montpensier, S. Telmo.—Stirling, iii. 1103; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Cean Bermudez; Curtis, 331.

MENESTRATUS, painter, 1st century His pictures were ridiculed in an epigram in the Greek anthology by Lucillius, who says his Phaëthon was only fit for the fire and his Deucalion for the water. Brunn (ii. 310) thinks it doubtful whether bad tragedies rather than pictures are not here referred to.