- 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
