Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 3.djvu/302

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MICHAEL Palace of Schi'mbrunn, near Vienna ; Family of Charles VI. (1730), Laxenburg Palace ; Artist's portrait, Vienna Museum ; do., Uf- fizi, Florence ; Old Man's Portrait, Dresden St. Michael. Raphael, Louvre. 062 ; Museum. Allgem. d. Biogr., Wurzbach, xviii. 193. MICHAEL, MAX, born in Hamburg, March 23, 1823. Genre painter, pupil of Dresden Academy, then in Paris of H. Leh- man and Couture ; went to Italy about 1850, and with short interruptions lived in Rome until 1870. Professor at Berlin Academy since 1875. Paints almost exclusively scenes from Italian country and convent life. Works : Country Girl Writing (1866), Ravene Gallery, Berlin ; Genre Scene (1855), Girls' School in Sabine Mountains (1874), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Neapolitan Fishermen ; Pietro da Cortona painting an Altai-piece (1876) ; Elementary Studies ; Peasant Family (1879); Mouks in the Choir ; Job and his Friends (1880) ; Forest Idyl (1881). Mttller, 369 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1882), ii. 419 ; Kunst-Chro- nik, xii. 102 ; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 212 ; Zeitschr. 1 b. K., xvi. 143. MICHAEL, ST., Eaphael, Louvre ; wood, transferred to canvas, H. 6 ft. 10 in. x 3 ft. 5 in. ; signed, dated 1518. St. Michael, hav- ing descended from heaven, has his foot on Satan, and raises his lance with both hands to strike him ; red and bluish flames shoot up from the crevices of the earth ; back- ground, a rugged landscape. Painted in Rome for Lorenzo de' Medici, who wished to present it to Francis I. to gain his sup- port in his pretensions to the Duchy of Ur- bino. Restored by Primaticcio in 1530 ; again restored in 1685 ; transferred to can- vas in 1753, and anew in 1776 and 1800. Engraved by N. Beatrizet ; Testelin ; G. Rousselet ; N. de Larmessin ; F. Chereau ; L. Surugue ; A. Tardieu ; Godefroy ; H. G. Chatillon. Old copies numerous. Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 365, 389 ; Passavant, ii. 254 ; Villot, Louvre ; Cab. Crozat, i. PI. 4 ; Mu- St. Michael, Raphael, Louvre. see franeais, i. ; Filhol, iv. PI. 235 ; Landon, Mus6e, ii. PI. 49. By Raphael, Louvre ; wood, H. 12 in. x 10 in.; called the Little St. Michael. St.