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 *siding deity of his life, and to whom he addressed so many of his finest sonnets. In Dec., 1555, he lost Urbino, his faithful servant more than twenty-five years. The Grand Duke of Tuscany tried to induce Michelangelo to leave Rome for Florence, but in vain, for he feared that if he did so the great cupola of St. Peter's might never be finished as he had designed; and, with the exception of a few months spent at Loreto and in the mountains near Spoleto, he did not again absent himself from the city. After his death his body was secretly taken to Florence, where splendid obsequies were celebrated in the Church of S. Croce in March, 1564.—Black, M. A. Buonarotti (London, 1875); Aurelio Gotti, Vita di (1875); Springer, Raphael and Michelangelo (1878); Heath Wilson, Life and Works (1876); Hagen, Acht Jahre aus dem Leben M.'s (Berlin, 1869); Harford, Life of (1857); Burckhardt, 641; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xii. 157; Quatremére, Histoire de (1835); Clement, Michel Ange (1861), 47; Fagan, M. in the British Museum; C. C. Perkins, Raphael and Michelangelo (1878); Eastlake, Five Great Painters (London, 1882); Grimm, Zehn Essays, 7; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 82; W. & W., ii. 575; Zeitschr. f. b. K., i. 223; iv. 329; x. 168; xi. 26, 56, 94, 117; xii. 107, 129; Bibliography of 300 titles in Gaz. des B. Arts (1876), xiii.; L. Passerini, La Bibliografia di (1875).

MICHELANGELO DA LUCCA. See Anselmi, Michelangelo.

MICHELANGELO RIFORMATO. See Tibaldi, Pellegrino.

MICHELANGELO DA SIENA. See Anselmi, Michelangelo.

MICHELE DA VERONA, died May 15, 1525. Venetian school; one of his earliest known works, the Crucifixion, in S. Stefano, Milan, dated 1500, is in many respects a copy of Jacopo Bellini. As he repeated the same subject on a vast scale in S. M. in Vanzo, Padua (dated 1505), it is likely that he had some share in the series which adorns the school (Scuola) of the Santo. He was again in Verona in 1509, as in that year he finished the Eternal with Angels, (dated 1508) in S. Chiara. The full measure of his ability is given in an altarpiece of 1523, a Madonna Enthroned, in the Church of Villa di Villa, near Este, where he displays a not unpleasant mixture of Morone, Cima, and Buonconsiglio. Other works are Pentecost, Miniscalchi, Verona; Crucifixion (1505), Seminario vescovile, Padua.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 506; Bernasconi, 283.

MICHELINO DA MILANO, 15th century (flourished in 1402-12). Lombard school; celebrated for painting animals; decorated parts of Casa Borromeo, Milan, with frescos, which show that he had some ability in rendering form and in treating colour. Possibly identical with Michelino da Besozzo or de' Molinari, recorded in 1404 as a glass painter in the Duomo, Milan.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 257; Burckhardt, 521.

MICHELIS, ALEXANDER, born at Münster, Dec. 25, 1823, died at Weimar, Jan. 23, 1868. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer; became professor at the Weimar Art School in 1863, founded an etching club, and devoted himself to art history. Works: Westphalian Landscape (1845); Wood-Path with Cows; Hungarian Horses at Sunrise; Heath View, Prague Gallery; Battlefield in Approaching Storm; Elves' Dance; Destroyed Earthwork; Primeval Forest (1857); Wood Interior, Stettin Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 693; Andresen, v. 259; Blanckarts, 8; Dioskuren (1868), 49; Kunst-Chronik, iii. 90; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 359; Zeitschr. f. b. K., ii. 86.

MICHETTI, FRANCESCO PAOLO, born at Chieti about 1852. Genre painter, pupil in Naples of Eduardo Dalbono, then studied in Paris. Lives at Francavilla a Mare, near Chieti. Works: Procession of Corpus Domini at Chieti; Spring and Love, The Kiss (1878); Shepherdesses in the Abruzzi; Health of the Bride; Return from Fountain; Child in the Woods; Driving the Flock; Olive Gatherers; Through the