MASON ness is shown in the use of perspective, which Masoliuo, like other painters of his time, had learned to apply to painting, thanks to the scientific discoveries of Bruuelleschi. According to the annotators of Vasari, the baptistery frescos were painted in 1435, but C. & C. give the date of 14-28 as covering these as well as those in the Collegiate Church. C. & C., Italy, i. 499 ; Vasari, ed. Le Moil., iii. 135 ; ed. Mil, ii. 2G3, 2G9 ; Baldiuucci, i. 342 ; Ch. Blanc, Erolo lloren- . ing in the Carnpagna (1857) ; Mist on the Moors (1862) ; Catch (1863) ; Return from Ploughing (1864) ; The Geese, The Gander (1865) ; Young Anglers, Yarrow (1866) ; Evening Matlock (1867) ; Wetley Moor, Evening Hymn (1868) ; Dancing Girls, Only a Shower (1869) ; Derbyshire Landscape (187U) ; Blackberry Gathering, Milkmaid (1871); Harvest Moon (1872). Portfolio (1871), 113 ; (1873), 40 ; Art Journal (1883), 43, 108, 185 ; Contemporary Rev., xxi. 724.
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! ; gMSm,i: AS 1 ' L3T Mass of Bolsena, Raphael, Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican, tine ; Lfibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., i. 285 ; Zeit- schrift f. b. K., xi. 225. MASON, GEORGE HEMIXG, born Wetley, Staffordshire, in 1818, died in Lon- don, Oct. 22, 1872. Genre and landscape painter ; forsook medi- cine for art in 1844, travelled through Eu- rope, and resided sever- al years in Rome ; re- turned in 1858 to Wet- ley, whence he removed to London in 1865. Elected an A.R.A. in 1869. Works : Plough- MASS OF BOLSENA, Raphael, Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican ; fresco, dated 1512. Called also Miracle of Bolsena. In 1263, under Urban IV., a priest who doubted the reality of transubstantiation is said to have seen blood flow from the wafer, when cele- brating mass in S. Cristina, Bolsena. This gave rise to the feast of Corpus Christi, in- stituted A. D. 1310. The priest is saying mass in the presence of Urban IV. (portrait of Julius II), who kneels at right ; behind the pope are four cardinals, and below them five of the Swiss guard ; on the left are deacons and acolytes, and below them people won- dering at the miracle. Typical of the vic- 215
