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MUSSIKI cellent pictures. Established himself at Amsterdam, where he obtained right of citi- zenship, March 15, 1688 ; painted also genre scenes and views of towns. Works : Por- trait of "Willem van de Velde, Mr. Baring, London ; Artist's Family (1G81), Hague Mu- seum ; Mother with Two Children, Arem- berg Gallery, Brussels ; Family Group, Por- traits of Hendrik Bicker and Wife (1G82), Portrait of Gaspard Fagel, Amsterdam Mu- seum ; Portrait, Six Collection, ib. ; Three Works : Death of Leonardo da Vinci (1828), Echo Weeping (1829), Tasso reading his Poem to Eleonora d'Este (1831), Death of Atala (1830), Florence Academy ; Raphael and the Fornariua ; Conspiracy of the Paz- zis ; Ganymede. Cotta's Kuustbl. (1838), 304; (1843), 271, 402; (1844), 358, 400; (1845), 338 ; (1840), 07. MUSSIXI, LUIGI, born in Florence in 1813. History painter, brother and pupil of Cesare. Director of Siena Academy. / & if affiSSfelv-ii

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Contest between the Muses and the Pierides, II Rosso, Louvre. Children making Garlands (1690), Rotter- dam Museum ; Male Portrait, Berlin Mu- seum ; Female do., Turin Gallery ; Artist's Family, Historical Society, New York. Immerzeel, ii. 249 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 401 ; Kramm, iv. 1178 ; Ch. Blanc, licole hollan- daise ; Burger, Musues, i. 251 ; ii. 103, 258 ; De Stuers, 97. MUSSINI, CESARE, born in Berlin in 1808. History painter, pupil of Florence Academy, where he became professor and court-painter to Grand Duke of Tuscany. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1849 ; L. of Honour, 1877. Works : Sacred Music (1840), Alms of the Christian and the Philanthropist (1844), Abelard and Heloise (1842), Flor- ence Academy ; Christian Martyrs, Siena, Cathedral ; Christ driving out the Money- Changers ; Spartan Education, Luxembourg Museum ; Marino Faliero contemplating Re- venge on Michele Steno, Wiesbaden Gallery ; Sienese Lad, Museo Civico, Turin ; Last Day of Nero ; Triumph of Truth ; Platonic Acad- emy of Lorenzo de' Medici ; Summer Hour (1878); St. Elizabeth, St. George (1882); Chess Tournament at Court of Spain (1883). Cotta'sKunstbl. (1844), 363 ; Muller, 387 ; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 171. 321