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MFZIANO lem Mnys, and at the Hague Academy of Aart Schouman ; dean of the guild at Rot- terdam in 1782-83 and 1792. Works : In- teriors (1775, 177G, 1777, 1779, 1791), do. by Candle Light (1783), Landscape with Figures (1790), Rotterdam Museum. MUZIANO (Mutiauo), GIRO LA MO, born at Acqua- fredda in 1530, died in Rome, April 27, 1592. Ven etian school ; pupil of Girolamo Roniauino at Brescia, but went young to Venice to study the works of Titian. When about twenty years old he went to Rome, where his talent won him the friendship of Michelangelo and Taddeo Zucchero, with whom he painted many works. Muziano was superintendent of the decorations in the Vatican under Gregory XHL, and the founder of the Acad- emy of St. Luke, which he endowed at his death. He made drawings, begun by Giu- lio Romano, of the bas-relief.s on the column of Trajan, afterwards engraved. His works, of which he left a large number, exhibit a grandeur of design approaching that of Mi- chelangelo, whom he closely imitated. His compositions are good, and his colouring rich, after the Venetian manner. Blanc calls him a second-rate Sebastiano del Pi- ' ombo. He excelled as a designer of mosa- ics, many of which in St. Peter's, Rome, were executed after his designs. His best pictures are in Roman churches : Resurrec- tion of Lazarus, in S. M. Maggiore ; As- sumption of the Virgin, S. Paolo ; St. Fran- cis receiving the Stigmata, Cappuccini ; Con- ception of the Virgin, S. M. Transpontina ; Christ giving the Keys to St. Peter, and St. John preaching in the Desert, S. M. degli Angeli ; Circumcision, Gesh ; Ascension, Ara Cceli. In the Louvre are the Incredulity of St. Thomas, and Resurrection of Lazarus ; at Reims is a St. Mary the Egyptian ; in the Bergamo and Bologna Galleries a St. Jerome ; in the Naples Museum a St. Fran- cis d'Assisi in Prayer ; and in the Schleiss- heim Gallery are a Christ before the Cruci- fixion, and a Pieta. Ch. Blanc, Kcolc vi'ui- tienne ; Vasavi, il. Le Mon., xi. 2G(i ; xii. 115 ; Seguier, 130 ; Siret, G33 ; Burckhardt, 739; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai.; Zeitschr. f. b. K, x. 207. MYN, HERMAN VAN DEI I, born at Amsterdam in 1684, died in London in 17-11. Flower painter, pupil of Ernst Steu- veii ; afterwards began to paint portraits and historical subjects, which caused his being called to the court of the Elector- Palatine ; returned to Holland in 1717, then went to Paris, and later on to London, where he obtained enormous prices for life-size portraits, but, living recklessly, was obliged to leave on account of debts in 173G, and on his return to Holland received a pension from the Prince of Orange ; hoping to bet- ter his circumstances he went again to Lon- don in 1741, and died in poverty. Works : Garden Flowers in costly Vase, Old Pinako- thek, Munich ; Festoon of Flowers, Schlciss- heini Gallery ; Death of Sophonisbe, Turin Gallery. Immer/eel, ii. 251 ; Kramm, iv. 1180; Nagler, x. 1)0. MYTENS, DANIEL, the elder, born at The Hague about 1590, died after 1G58. Dutch school ; portrait painter, formed him- self after Rubens ; entered the guild of The Hague in 1(510 ; went in 1G18 to England, where he worked for James I. and Charles I., whose court-painter he became in 1G25. On Van Dyck's arrival he wished to retire, but the king and Van Dyck himself per- suaded him to remain. Said to have returned to The Hague about 1G30. He painted beautiful copies of Raphael's cartoons. His works show great simplicity of manner, lightness of colour, and silvery flesh tones. Works : Charles I. with Henrietta Maria and Child, Buckingham Palace ; Earl of Arundel and Family, Duke of Norfolk's Collection, London ; Marquis of Hamilton, 323