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 Nymph; Maximilian I. (dining-room, Imperial Palace, Vienna).—Müller, 372.

MINOR, ROBERT C., born in New York in 1840. Landscape painter, pupil of Diaz in Paris and of Van Luppen and Boulanger in Antwerp. Sketched in Germany and Italy. Exhibits at the National Academy. Member of Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works: Dawn; Studio of Corot; Landscape, T. B. Clarke, New York; Sundown; Stream (1879); October Days, Evening (1880); Evening Star (1881); Vale of Kennet, Edge of the Wood (1882); Interior of the Forest, Morning in June (1883); Evening, Twilight, Wold of Kent—England (1884); Twilight, Cradle of the Hudson, Sunrise on Lake Champlain (1885); Autumn Morning, Evening after Rain, Close of Day (1886).

MINOTAUR, WRECK OF THE, Joseph M. W. Turner, Earl of Yarborough; canvas. The Minotaur, a 74-gun ship, with 600 men on board, was wrecked on the Haaks Bank, Dutch coast, Dec. 22, 1810; only 110 persons saved, landed on the Texel and made prisoners. The ship lies on her side, with only the stumps of her masts standing; enormous waves dash against her from behind, and the foreground is filled with wreckage, to which many of the crew are clinging; several Dutch craft are trying to rescue the survivors. One of Turner's masterpieces. Painted in 1811 for first Lord Yarborough. Engraved by T. O. Barlow.—Athen., Jan., 1875; Waagen, Art Treasures, iv. 70.

MINTROP, THEODOR, born at Barkenhofen, near Werden on the Ruhr, Rhenish-Prussia, April 7, 1814, died in Düsseldorf, June 30, 1870. History and genre painter, son of a peasant, at first self-taught, then, brought to Düsseldorf by Eduard Geselschap, pupil of the Academy under Karl Sohn, where his unusual talent was rapidly developed and widely noticed after the exhibition of his first pictures. Works: Madonna with St. John (1852), Düsseldorf Gallery; Madonna with SS. Ludgerius and Benedict (1856-59); Maywine Bowl (1869), Cologne Museum. In fresco: Frieze with the Seasons; Four Elements; Trade and Industry; Four Species of Music; Scenes from Life of Apollo; Triumph of Aurora.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 771; Art Journal (1870),	308; Blanckarts, 36; Illustr. Zeitg. (1871),	i. 291; (1874), ii. 494; (1875), i. 227; Kunst-Chronik, i. 136; v. 160; ix. 459; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 56; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 104; x. 128.

MIRACLE OF THE CROSS. See Cross.

MIRACLE OF THE CURE, Gentile Bellini, Venice Academy; canvas, H. 10 ft. × (?); signed. Pietro di Lodovico kneeling before an altar in an octagon shrine in a choir to be cured by the relic of the cross, which is presented by a brother; groups of spectators in front. Painted about 1494 for the Scuola of S. Giovanni Evangelista. Much injured by repainting.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 129; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 82.

MIRACLE OF LOAVES AND FISHES, Murillo, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville; canvas, H. 11 ft. 6 in. × 18 ft. Christ, seated on a rock in a hilly landscape, with a loaf in his hands, is surrounded by the Disciples, one of whom lays four loaves in the Saviour's lap; a boy approaches with two fishes in a basket; the multitude seated on the right. Painted in 1670-74 for the hospital; companion to Moses striking the Rock. Engraved by J. G. Levasseur; Boilly.—Curtis, 191; C. Bermudez, Carta, 74; Stirling, ii. 852.

By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. Christ, the Disciples, and the crowd of seven thousand poorly represented by twenty-one figures; the landscape, the slope of a woody hill, is grand.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 339.

MIRACLE OF THE SLAVE. See Mark, St., Miracle of.