- queathed to the city the collection called
after him, the Musée Fabre. Works: Neoptolemus and Ulysses taking from Philoctetes the Arrows of Hercules, Louvre; Death of Abel, Holy Family, Death of Narcissus, Musée Fabre, Montpellier; Portrait of Alfieri, do. of Countess of Albany, Uffizi, Florence; Judgment of Paris; Death of Milo; Family of Kings of Etruria (1804), Madrid Museum.—Villot, Cat. Louvre.
FABRIANO, GENTILE DA, born at Fabriano
in 1370 (?), died in Rome in 1450 (?).
Umbrian school. Real name Gentile di Niccolò
di Giovanni Massi. Pupil probably of
Allegretto Nuzi, who died when Gentile was
fifteen years old; has been called both master
and pupil of Fra Angelico, but rather on account
of a certain superficial resemblance
between them than from any real affinity.
He left Fabriano some time before 1521 to
become court-painter to Pandolfo Malatesta,
for whom he decorated a chapel at Brescia.
Thence Gentile probably went to Venice to
paint a fresco of the battle between Doge
Ziani and Otho, son of Barbarossa, in the
Hall of the Grand Council, Palazzo Ducale,
destroyed by fire in 1574. Jacopo Bellini
was his pupil there and accompanied him in
1422 to Florence, where Gentile painted,
the next year, his most famous picture, the
Adoration of the Magi, now in the Academy,
a work which entitles him to be called the
Umbrian Fra Angelico. Like him, Gentile
paints in the spirit of the old school, with
the gay colouring of the early Umbrian
masters, the profuse use of gilt relief ornament,
and the somewhat formal system of
composition peculiar to the Florentines before
Masaccio; but pleasing and poetical as
the result is, Gentile shows in it none of the
deep mystical fervour of Angelico, and in
this more nearly resembles Benozzo Gozzoli
than his master. Among his other works
Gentile painted a charming fresco of the
Madonna at Orvieto (1426), being on his
way to Rome. He remained in the latter
city until his death, and executed many masterpieces
for Popes Martin V. and Eugenius
IV., which have all perished. Among his
other works are: Coronation of the Virgin
with Saints, and a predella with five subjects,
Brera, Milan; Virgin adoring the Infant
Jesus, hall of the Pia Casa, and Adoration
of the Magi, S. Domenico, Pisa; Virgin
enthroned with Saints and a Donor, Berlin
Museum.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 95, N. Italy, i.
106; Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 5, 15; Bernasconi,
Studii, 51; Burckhardt, 555, 588; Ch. Blanc,
École ombrienne; Siret, 358; Cibo, Niccolò
Alunno e la Scuola Umbra (Roma, 1872), 20,
53; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 213.
FABRITIUS, BERNART, born about
1620, died after 1669. Dutch school; history
and portrait painter, pupil of Rembrandt,
whom in his portraits he imitated
successfully; received into guild at Leyden
in 1658. Works: Portrait of Young Man
(1650), Birth of John Baptist (1669), Städel
Gallery, Frankfort; Goliath (1657), Camberlyn
Collection, Brussels; St. Peter in House
of Cornelius (1653), Brunswick Museum;
Presentation in the Temple (1668), Copenhagen
Gallery; Herodias receiving the Head
of John the Baptist, Amsterdam Museum
(under Drost); Bust of Shepherd, Vienna
Academy; Adoration of Shepherds, Birth of
John Baptist, Cassel Gallery; Portrait of
Young Man (1650), (?) Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Family Repast (1650), Alchymist
in his Laboratory, Stockholm Museum.—Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 284; Burger, Musées,
ii. 166, 170; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iii. 290; xvi.
404; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), viii. 186;
(1864), xvi. 77; (1865), xviii. 80; (1874), x.
408; Havard, A. & A. Holl., iv. 53; Jour.
des B. Arts (1868), 13, 27.
FABRITIUS, KAREL, born in 1624,
killed Oct. 12, 1654, by the explosion of a
powder magazine at Delft, while painting
the portrait of Simon Decker, sacristan of
the old church. Dutch school; pupil of
Rembrandt and painter of the first order,
especially in portraits. Works: Male Portrait,
Rotterdam Museum; do., Berlin Museum;
do. (attributed), Cologne Museum;
The Gold Finch (1654), Aremberg Gallery,
