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 *netian school; son of Domenico Morone, whom he served some time as an assistant; afterwards an independent master of large practice, gaining a name second only to that of Morando. He studied Mantegna as a draughtsman, and Montagna as a colourist. His first works known are a Virgin and St. John, Church of S. Bernardino (1498); Virgin with Trinity and Saints, Verona Museum; Virgin enthroned with Saints (1503); Altar-piece, S. M. dell' Organo; do., Brera, Milan; do., Duomo, Trent. His masterpieces are in the sacristy at S. M. dell' Organo, where the walls and ceiling are filled with incidents adapted from Mantegna's in the Camera de Sposi at Mantua. This sacristy is one of the grand monuments of local art in the Venetian provinces, second only to Mantegna's creations in the use of perspective and foreshortening, and in the geometrical distribution of the space. Morone's Madonna and Saints, on the walls of a house near the Ponte delle Navi, Verona, painted in 1515, indicates a long and careful study of the best masterpieces of Mantegna.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 489; Bernasconi, 280; Lavice, 99, 147; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 576.

MORONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, born at Bondo near Albino, Province of Bergamo, about 1520-25, died at Brescia, Feb. 5, 1578. Venetian school; pupil of Moretto, and one of the most successful followers of his style, says Tassi; but, though he was an admirable colourist, his pictures are unequal in invention and design to those of his master. His portraits are far better than his altarpieces, and are equal to any of his time. He worked chiefly in Bergamo and its vicinity. Among his large examples are a Holy Family, Leuchtenberg Gallery, St. Petersburg; and the Assumption and a Madonna, Brera, Milan. Fine examples of his portraits are in the Uffizi, Florence (5, one dated 1563, among which his own portrait); Berlin Museum (3, one dated 1543); Pope Pius IV., Dresden Museum; Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Städel Gallery, Frankfort (2); Academy Carrara, Bergamo (12); Gallery Tosi, Brescia; Madrid Museum, and National Gallery, London.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Burckhardt, 737; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 621.

MOROT, AIMÉ NICOLAS, born at Nancy, June 16, 1850. History painter, pupil of Cabanel and of the École des Beaux Arts. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1873. Medals: 3d class, 1876; 2d class, 1877; 1st class, 1879; medal of honour, 1880. Works: Daphnis and Chloë (1873); Medea (1877); Incident of the Battle of Aqua Sextiæ (1879); Good Samaritan (1880); Temptation of St. Anthony (1881); Crucifixion (1833); Bravo Toro, Dryad (1884); Toro Colante (1885); Rézonville (1886).—Müller, 378; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 27; xx. 571; Gaz. des B. Arts (1881), xxiii. 513.

MORRELL, IMOGENE ROBINSON, born at Attleborough, Mass.; contemporary. Portrait and history painter; pupil of Camphausen in Düsseldorf, and of Couture in Paris. Paints horses with great fidelity. Works; David before Saul; Washington and his Staff welcoming a Provision Train, First Battle between the Puritans and the Indians (1876).

MORRIS, PHILIP RICHARD, born at Devonport, England, Dec. 4, 1838. History painter; studied in the British Museum, under the advice of Holman Hunt, and in