- tory of the church over scepticism. Engraved
by R. Morghen; Volpato; Aquila; P. Fidanza.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 342; Müntz, 362; Passavant, ii. 132; Springer, 199; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 433; Perkins, 137.
MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS, Garofalo,
Ferrara Gallery; wood, H. 8 ft. × 6 ft. 3 in.
Painted in 1519 for Cappella Festini in S.
Francesco, Ferrara. Highly praised by Vasari.—Vasari,
ed. Mil., vi. 464; Baruffaldi,
i. 326.
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Massacre of Innocents, Guido Reni, Bologna Gallery.
By Guido Reni, Bologna Gallery; canvas, H. 8 ft. 2 in. × 5 ft. 3 in. Herod's soldiers slaying children in a court; above, two boy angels with palms. Fine colour and action, but too crowded. Formerly in S. Domenico, Bologna; carried to Paris in 1796; returned in 1815. Engraved by Bolognini; Bartolozzi; Rosaspina.—Pinac. di Bologna, Pl. 7; Landon, Musée, xiv. Pl. 9; Lavice, 13.
By Rubens, Munich Gallery; wood, H. 6 ft. 3 in. × 9 ft. 5 in. An excellent picture in the artist's free or bravura manner. Engraved by P. Pontius; Depuis.—Smith, ii. 72.
By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. The outer vestibule of a palace, with a flight of stairs, down which rush a crowd of women mixed with the murderers; one woman dashes herself down head-foremost, dragging her child with her; in front, a great struggle, with a confused heap of mothers and of the slain; in background, women fleeing pursued by soldiers.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 328; Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne.
By Daniele da Volterra, Uffizi, Florence; wood, small figures. A fine composition, with numerous figures. Formerly in Cathedral of Volterra; purchased in 1782.
MASSACRE OF MACHÉCOUL, François
Flameng, Paris; canvas, H. 20 ft. × 30
ft. Illustration of a scene in the war of La
Vendée in 1793. Under the walls of a castle
lie many bodies, men and women together,
ghastly and contorted with the agonies of
death; at the left, an old man tied to a tree,
the blood oozing from his wounds; in centre,
a group of aristocrats, the lord of the
manor and his lady friends, daintily picking
their way over the blood-stained ground.
A disagreeable but masterly picture. Salon,
1884.—Art Journal (1884), 180.
MASSARI, LUCIO, born at Bologna in
1569, died there in 1633. Bolognese school;
history painter, pupil of Bartolommeo Passarotti
and opponent of the Carracci, but
afterwards became a zealous adherent of
Lodovico Carracci and went to Rome, where
he studied after the antique and the great
masters. Works: Madonna with St. John,
Uffizi, Florence; St. Clara with the Holy
Sacrament driving off Invading Saracens,
Return of Prodigal Son, Angel presenting
Purified Soul to the Holy Trinity, Pietà,
Pinacoteca, Bologna; Four pictures from
Life of St. Benedict, S. Michele, ib.; others
at the Benedictines and Carthusians, ib.
MASSI, GENTILE DI NICCOLÒ. See
Gentile da Fabriano.
