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St. Agnes (1878), Judith, Rouen Museum; Inquisition in Spain (1879); Salammbô (1880); Springtime (1881); "Hail King of the Jews" (1882); Guardian Angel (1885).—Müller, 172.



FESELEN, MELCHIOR, born at Passau, died in Ingolstadt, April 10, 1538. German school; history painter, evidently influenced in his later pictures by Albrecht Altdorfer, his contemporary. Works: Crucifixion, Darmstadt Museum; Porsenna besieging Rome (1529), Cæsar besieging Alesia (1533), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Adoration of the Magi (1531), Nuremberg Museum; Mary of Egypt (1523), Historical Society, Ratisbon; Crucifixion, Beheading of St. Barbara, Church of Our Lady, Ingolstadt.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vi. 723; W. & W., ii. 418.




FETI, DOMENICO, born in Rome in 1589, died in Venice in 1624. Roman school; pupil of Cigoli in Florence; afterwards went to Mantua, studied works of Giulio Romano, and was made court-painter there by Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, whence sometimes called Il Mantovano. Painted many small pictures, chiefly Bible subjects, vigorous in colour and good in execution. Works: David with Head of Goliath, Martyrdom of St. Agnes, Return of the Prodigal, Good Samaritan, and 7 others, Dresden Gallery; Ecce Homo, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Market-Place, Flight into Egypt, Leander, Moses and the Burning Bush, Marriage of St. Catherine, Triumph of Galatea, St. Margaret, Vienna Museum; David and Goliath, Dædalus and Icarus, Adoration of Shepherds, Tobias healing his Father, Conception, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Visitation, Flight into Egypt, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Expulsion of Hagar, Return of Prodigal, Brunswick Museum; Elijah in Wilderness, Berlin Museum; Magdalen Penitent, Oldenburg Gallery; Sleeping Girl, Buda-Pesth Gallery; Meditation, Venice Academy; Artemisia, Uffizi, Florence; Lost Coin, Labourers in the Vineyard, Palazzo Pitti, ib.; Christ in Garden, Christ and Pilate, Crowning with Thorns, Entombment, Palazzo Corsini, ib.; Nero, Rural Life, Melancholy, Guardian Angel, Louvre, Paris; Beheading of John Baptist, National Gallery, Edinburgh; David with Head of Goliath, Hampton Court.—Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 793, 800; Seguier, 68.



FEUERBACH, ANSELM, born at Speyer, Sept. 12, 1829, died in Venice, Jan. 4, 1880. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow, then in Munich under Rahl and Genelli; having frequented the Antwerp Academy in 1850, he studied in Paris under Couture in 1851-52, went to Carlsruhe in 1853, to Venice in 1854, and to Rome in 1856; was appointed professor at the Vienna Academy in 1873; decorated the ceiling of the Museum of Casts with a fresco of the Titans. Works: Death of Pietro Aretino (1853); Silenus with Young Bacchus and two Satyrs, Poetry (1854), Dante with the Ladies of Ravenna (1857), Carlsruhe Gallery; Iphigenia (1861); Francesca da Rimini and Paolo (1861), Pietà (1862), Ariosto with Ladies in Ferrara (1863), Petrarch seeing Laura in Church (1864), Singing Boy and Girl overheard by Nymph, Madonna with Angels, Group of Bathing Children