MECKEL, ADOLF VON, born at Carlsruhe; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Hans Gude; travelled in the East. Gold medal. Works: Kalaat and Akabat, Spring in Palestine (1884); Evening near the Dead Sea (1885); On the Source of the Elisa near Jericho, Storm (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).
MECKLENBURG, LUDWIG, born in
Hamburg, Sept. 15, 1820, died in Munich,
June 11, 1882. Architecture painter, settled
in 1843 in Munich; was especially successful
in representations of night effects.
Works: Crossway in S. Zeno, Verona
(1847), Venice (1861), Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Cloister of S. Bernardino, Verona
(1860); Cloister in Brixen; View near Rialto
Bridge by Moonlight; View in Venice
at Noon; View in St. Mark's; Doge's Palace
in Starlight; S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice;
S. Maria della Salute, ib.; Riva degli Schiavoni,
ib.; Market Square in Lübeck; Piazza
delle Erbe, Verona; Interior of S. Anastasia,
ib.; Canal in Venice by Moonlight (1856),
Neuturm and Kostthor—Munich, Angerthor,
ib. (1872), New Pinakothek, Munich;
Canal grande—Venice, Mrs. D. D. Colton,
San Francisco.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xxi. 266;
Allgem. Zeit., July 3, 1882, Beilage, 184;
Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 610; Müller, 361.
MECUCCIO. See Beccafumi.
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MÉDARD, EUGÈNE, born in Paris;
contemporary. History and genre painter,
pupil of Cogniet, Sebastien Cornu, and Gérôme.
Medal, 3d class, 1879; 2d class,
1886. Works: Separation of Orpheus and
Eurydice (1870); Bivouac near Château de
Buzenval (1873); Birds'-Nester (1874); Consecration
of St. Geneviève, Offering to Venus
(1875); Scouts in December 1870, Cupid
fleeing from Psyche (1876); Attack of a Village,
1870 (1877); Triumph of Silenus
(1878); A Retreat (1879, bought by State);
Defence of
Belfort in
1870-1871
(1880); General Lecourbe defending Belfort
in 1815 (1881), Hôtel de Ville, Belfort;
Reinforcements ariving on Battlefield (1881);
Attack of a Village in 1870 (1883).—Bellier,
ii. 64.
MEDEA (Médée furieuse), Eugène Delacroix,
Lille Museum; canvas, H. 8 ft. 6 in.
× 5 ft. 5 in.; signed, dated 1838. Medea,
pursued, is about to slay her children. She
is seated near the entrance of a cavern holding
the struggling little ones with one hand
and a dagger in the other; looking back
over her shoulder with a defiant air, as if
awaiting her pursuers. Salon, 1838; Exposition
universelle, 1855. Replica (1863);
Pereire Collection, Paris; then Laurent-Richard
Collection; another, Arras Museum.
Sketches, Lille Museum. Engraved by
Charles Geoffroy; Milius; Feyen-Perrin.
Lithographed by Challemel; Alophe; Lassalle.—Gaz.
des B. Arts (1864), xvi. 196;
(1873), vii. 184; Chesneau, L'Œuvre de
Delacroix, 181.
MEDEA, ancient picture. See Aristolaus,
Timomachus.
MEDICI, GIULIANO DE', portrait,
Raphael, lost (?). Youngest brother of
Pope Leo X., who made him, in 1515, Captain
General of the Church. He married
the aunt of Francis I., who gave him the
title of Duc de Nemours. Raphael painted
him in 1513 and again in 1514. Copy by
Alessandro Allori in the Uffizi; another in
collection of Grand Duchess Marie, St. Petersburg.—Passavant,
ii. 145; Müntz, 410;
Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 352; Springer, 253.
MEDICI, IPPOLITO DE', Cardinal, portrait,
Titian, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas,
H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 4 in. In Hungarian costume.
Painted about 1533. Copy in Louvre
(by Battista Franco?); three-fourths figure,
turned to left, red bonnet with feathers
and a jewelled clasp, collar of red garment
turned up. Collection of Louis XIV. Titian
painted a second portrait of him in armour,
which Vasari mentions, but it is lost.
Engraved by Sivalli.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vii.
441; C. & C., Titian, i. 377; Filhol, i. Pl.
41; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iii. Pl. 121; Mündler,
214.
