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MORONI [olourist. netian school ; son of Domenico Morone, whom lie served some time as an assistant ; afterward sail in- dependent mas- ter of large prac- tice, gaining a name sec on d only to that of Morando. He studied Man- t e g n a as a dra u ghtsnian, i and Montagna as His first works known are a Virgin and St. John, Church of S. Bernar- dino (1498) ; Virgin with Trinity and Saints, Verona Museum ; Virgin enthroned with Saints (1503) ; Altar-piece, S. M. dell' Orga- no ; do., Brera, Milan ; do., Duomo, Trent. His masterpieces arc ill the sacristy at S. M. dell' Organo, where the walls and ceiling are filled with incidents adapted from Man- togna's in ihc Camera de Sposi at Mantua. This sacristy is one of the grand monuments of local art in the Venetian provinces, sec- ond only to Mantcgna'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 care- [FRANCISCVS ful study of the best masterpieces of Man- tegna. C. & C., N. Italy, i. 489 ; Bernas- coni, 280 ; Lavice, 99, 147 ; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., ii. 570. 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 inven- tion 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, Mil- an. Fine examples of his portraits are in the Uffizi, Florence (5, one dated 1563, among which his own portrait); Berlin Mu- seum (3, one dated 1543) ; Pope Pius IV., Dresden Museum ; Hermitage, St. Peters- burg ; Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort (2) ; Acad- emy Carrara, Bergamo (12) ; Gallery Tosi, Brescia ; Madrid Museum, and National Gal- lery, London. Ch. Blanc, ficole veuitienne ; Burckhardt, 737 ; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., ii. 621. MOROT, AEVlf; NICOLAS, born at Nan- cy, June 1G, 1850. History painter, pupil of Cabanel and of the ftcole des Beaux Arts. Won the grand prix de Rome in 1873. Med- als : 3d class, 1876; 2d class, 1877 ; 1st class, 1879 ; medal of honour, 1880. Works : Daphnis and Chloe (1873); Medea (1877); Incident of the Bat- tle of Aqua Sextisv (1879) ; Good Samaritan (1880) ; Temptation of St. Anthony (1881) ; Crucifixion (1833) ; Bravo Toro, Dryad (1884); Toro Colaute (1885); Rezonville (1886). Mtiller, 378 ; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 27 ; xx. 571 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1881), xxiii. 513. MORRELL, IMOGENS ROBINSON, born at Attleborough, Mass. ; contemporary. Portrait and history painter ; pupil of Camp- hausen in Diisseldorf, 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 (187C). 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 298