Recorder Home Page

Click to return to Recorder Home Page

Recorder Iconography

Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander

M

Jan Mabuse (original name Jan Gossaert or Jenni Gossart, also called Jan Malbodius)

Flemish painter who was one of the first artists to introduce the style of the Italian Renaissance into the Low Countries, painted portraits and religious and mythological subjects; born County of Hainaut [now in Netherlands] (ca 1478), died Breda, Brabant (ca 1532).

Cyrillo Volkmar [Cirillo Wolkmar] Machado

Portuguese painter, as well as an art and architectural historian of the second half of the eighteenth century; his paintings included allegorical and mythological subjects; born Lisbon (1748), died Lisbon (1823).

Jacopo di Zanobi Machiavelli [Macchiavello]

Italian painter; born Florence (ca 1418), died ? Pisa (1479).

James McArdell

Irish engraver; his output includes ca 200 mezzotints after other artists, nearly all of which are portraits; he also produced prints after Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, William Hogarth and others; born Dublin (?1728), died London (1765). See also Jan Miense Molenaer (ca 1610-1668).

Adam McCauley

Contemporary USA illustrator, drummer and surfer who lives in Oakland, California. Adam's Home Page.

Buddy McCue

Contemporary USAmerican artist, ukelele player and composer; born Chatanooga (1965).

Donald McKinlay

British sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker living and working in Cloughfold, Lancashire; political events around the world and the reporting of them in the popular press have provided him with source material for a number of years; most of his work relates to the human figure and everyday situations; born Bootle (1929).

MacRegol

Irish scribe, Bishop and Abbot of Birr; is one of the few artists of the Early Christian Period whose name we know because he signed his book at the end:
"Macregol illuminated these gospels. Whoever reads and understands this narration, pray for Macreguil the scribe."
His illuminated manuscript copy of the Four Gospels is now in the, Bodleian Library in Oxford, one of the greatest treasures there. It was only in 1814 that Fr. Charles O'Conor of the O'Conor Don family, saw the connection between the Macregol of this book and the entries in the Irish Annals about the year 821:
"Macriagoil Ua Magleni, Scribe, Abbot, Bishop of Birr, died."
So the manuscript got another name: The Book of Birr in addition to Macregol's Gospels, and it is also called The Rushworth Gospels after the man who presented it to the Bodleian library in the seventeenth century. Macregol was illuminating his gospels at about the same time as the anonymous scribes of the Book of Kells. His script is similar to their scripts, one of which is featured on the back of the Irish five pound note but his illumination is not as elaborate. The cover and some pages are missing but the book is otherwise in good condition.

Macrino d'Alba [Gian Giacomo de Alladio or Fava; il 'Macrino']

Italian artist; his work is characterised by its rich interwoven colours, firm design and vibrant chiaroscuro; painted religous subjects; born Alba (ca 1465/70), died ca 1528.

Paul Madeline (1863-1920), French

French painter who lived and worked in Paris at a time when both the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements were dominating the French scene; he is known chiefly for his landscapes, in which depicted the French landscape in sumptuous colour and in loose brushstrokes; born 1863, died Paris (1920.).

Madonna Master (early 14th century), French

Mariano di Maella (1739-1819)

Girolamo di Francesco Magagni [ditto Giomo del Sodoma or Girolamo da Siena]

Italian painter; born Siena (1507), died Siena (1562).

Domenico-Fedeli Maggiotto [or Majotto]

Italian painter whose early works adhere to the expressive formulae of his teacher, Piazzetta, and are concentrated on genre subjects charactersied by a plasticity of form and a strong preference for chiaroscuro effects; his later paintings display a tendency towards impersonal eclecticism; born Venice (1712), died Venice (1794); father of the painter Francesco Maggiotto (1738-1805).

Alessandro Magnasco [Il Lissandrino]

Italian artist of the Genoese school; painted rococco style religious subjects, genre scenes, landscapes, and architectural ruins; born Genoa (1667), died Genoa (1749).

Carlo Magnone (17th century), Italian

Gian-Francesco de Maineri

Italian painter active in the regions of Ferrare and Parma; known for sophisticated religious pieces; born ca 1460, died 1505.

Hans Johann der Maler

German artist and follower of Lucas Cranach; born 1544-1550.

Pat M. Mallinson

British artist who taught at Farnborough Hill in Hampshire and was on the staff of the new Camden School of Art; she exhibited at the Royal Academy and her work is found in collections and galleries in Britain and overseas.

Cornelis de Man

Seventeenth-century Netherlandish painter whose subjects include genre scenes, mercantile scenes, landscapes, church interiors.

Jacobus Sibrandi Mancadan

Dutch artist and government official who served as burgomaster of Franeker from 1637 to 1639 and of Leeuwarden in 1645; his primary occupation, however, was painting; born Leeuwarden (1602), died Tjerkgaast (1680).

Francesco Mancini

Italian painter; his art is rooted in the classicist tradition of Bologna and Emilia Romagna; his work is almost exclusively ecclesiastical, and he made a significant contribution to the development of the form and iconography of the altarpiece; born S. Angelo in Vado (1679), died Rome (1758).

Karel [Carel] van Mander III

Flemish-born Dutch painter and poet, who is mainly remembered as a biographer of Netherlandish artists; as an artist he played an important role in Northern Mannerism in the Netherlands; his own pictures, which were mainly religious and allegorical, adopted the elongated forms of the Mannerist, but his later works showed a tendency towards naturalism; Frans Hals was probably his pupil; born Meulebeke (1548), died Heemskerk (1606).

Emmanuel Mané-Katz

Ukrainian/French painter and sculptor, of the main masters of the "Ecole de Paris"; born into a religious Jewish family, he was much influenced by Jewish mysticism; his subjects include themes drawn from life in the ghettos of Eastern Europe, the rabbis and Talmudic students, the fiddlers and drummers, comedians and beggars; he also painted a number of landscapes and flower studies; later in life his style became expressionist and baroque, with loose brushwork and rhythmical forms; born 1894, died 1962.

Bartolomeo Manfredi

Italian painter of the Roman school; a Carravaggist who specialised in low-life scenes of taverns, soldiers in guardrooms, card-playing, and the like; no works signed by or documented as his survive; born Mantua (1582), died Rome (p. 1622).

Lisa Manning

Contemporary American artist who works out of her studio in Beverly, MA; her illustrations have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Business Week, Computer Life, Fortune Magazine, MS Magazine, The New York Times, US News & World Report and Working Woman Magazine; born Boston MA. Web page.

Giovanni di Niccolo Mansueti (op. 1485-1527), Italian

Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506)

Italian painter, one of the great stylistic innovators whose influence on the whole practice of painting was immense; his works are characterised by the sculptural modelling of his figures, his incisive line, his treatment of landscape in geological layers, his stressed gestures, and his tragic use of colour; active mainly in Padua and Mantua, briefly in Verona, Florence and Rome; born Isola di Carturo, near Vicenza (1431), died Mantua (1506).

The origin of the designs of the so-called "Tarocchi Cards of Mantegna", is controversial. It has long been thought that they are derived from designs by a Ferrara painter, possibly Baccio Baldini (op. 1460-1485), for use in the Ducal court. However, Kenneth Clark (see McClean, 1983) has attributed the designs to Parrasio Michele (1516-1578), Master of the School of Ferrara. More recently, Prinke (1990) has argued that the designs were, in fact, by Mantegna himself. In this catalogue, data on the cards relevant to recorder iconography is listed under Baldini.

Pietro Marascalchi [da Feltre], called 'Lo Spada' (The Sword)

Italian painter active in the Veneto and especially in the province of Belluno; born 1522, died 1589.

Carlo Maratta [Maratti] (1625-1713), Italian (Rome)

Italian artist, the leading painter in Rome in the late 17th century, he continued the tadition of the Classical Grand Manner, based on Raphael; his works include altarpieces, frescos and portraits; born 1625, died 1713.

Miguel March

Spanish draughtsman and painter who worked in a number of genres, including, allegorical, still-life, battle and religious works; born Valencia ca 1633, died 1670; son of the painter Esteban March (ca 1610-1668).

Girolamo Marchesi da Cotignola (ca 1471/5 – ca 1540/1550), Italian

Gerhard Marcks

German sculptor, painter and graphic artist associated with the Bauhaus where he became head of pottery in Dornburg, near Weimar; before the war his works were censored and confiscated; after the war he had many exhibitions, created many memorials and church monuments, and even designed a bridge in Halle; he also made expressionist woodcuts; born Berlin (1889), died Burgbrohl/Eifel (1991).

Rocco Marconi

Italian artist active mainly in Venice and Treviso; he was a follower of Giovanni Bellini in whose workshop he spent some 25 years; born ? Venice (a. 1490), died 1529.

Hans von Marées

German draughtsman and painter of the so-called Idealist school; born Elberfeld, Prussia (1837), died Rome (1887).

Maretz (17th century), France

Onorio Marinari

Italian painter and printmaker active mainly in Florence; his paintings include a number of altarpieces for Florentine churches and a self portrait, now in the Uffizzi; his illustrated Fabbrica ed uso dell' Annulo Astronomico was published in 1674; son of the minor painter Sigismondo di Pietro Marinari (op. 1650), cousin of the Florentine painter Carlo Dolci (1616-1686).

Giovanni Marino (18th century), Italy

Simon Marmion

Franco-Flemish miniaturist and book illuminator who worked in the Burgundian court of the noted patrons Philip the Good and Margaret of York; a radical artist who introduced and developed the use of new colours and colour relationships which made him a pioneer in the depiction of atmospheric effects in landscap (some scholars controversially believe that Marmion painted the first pure landscape); also noted for the clarity of his narrative and sensitive conveying of the emotions of his characters; active ca 1425-1489.

Jacob Marrel [Marrell, Marzell, Morrel or Morsel]

German still-life painter, engraver, and art dealer active in Utrecht; he specialised in floral still-lifes and botanical illustration of tulip varieties; stepfather of the entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717); born Frankenthal (1614), died Frankfurt (1681).

Giovanni Martinelli

Italian painter active mostly in Florence; born Montevarchi (ca 1600 or 1604), died 1659.

Ben Martinez (contemporary), USA

Bernat [Bernardo] Martorell

Spanish painter of the Barcelona school known for his scrupulous attention to detail, his ability to convey an impression of depth and space and to give life to all elements of his compositions; born 1427, died 1452.

Félix Mas (contemporary), Spanish

Henri Leopold Masson

Canadian artist best known for his genre, landscape, and figure drawing; born Belgium (1907), died Ottawa, Canada (1996).

Master of 1416 (early 15th century), Italian (Florentine)

Master of the Aachen Altarpiece [Master of the Aix-la-Chapelle Altarpiece]

German painter (formerly thought to be Flemish), named after the great winged altarpiece with scenes from the Passion (ca 1510, Aachen, Domschatzkam.), painted for the Carmelite church in Cologne; he adopted a restless and capricious style of Mannerism, his figures being alluringly full and soft; known from works in Aachen and Munich; active from ca 1460-1520, in Cologne between ca 1480 and 1500.

Master of S. Agostino (early 14th century), Italy

Master of the Abbey of Afflighem = Master of the Joseph Sequence

Master of the Aix Annunciation [? Jean Boyer (French)] (15th century), French

French painter of the Annunciation altarpiece in the church of St Magdalen at Aix, the wings of which are preserved at Brussels and Vierhouten and one fragment at Amsterdam; thought by some to be executed by Jean Boyer, Court Painter to King René of Provence ca 1450.

Master of the Aix-la-Chapelle Altarpiece = Master of the Aachen Altarpiece

Master of the Acquavella Still-life (op. ca 1610-1620), Italian (Rome)

Master of Archbishop Don Sancho Rojas (15th century), Spanish

Master of Arguis

Spanish artist active in the first half of the fifteenth century; stylistically, his work is derived from the tradition of the International Gothic in Aragon; his name is derived from a retable of Saint Michael dating to about 1440, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, and once the main altarpiece of the church of Arguis; two other paintings, both dedicated to St Anne, are attributed to him, one is in Barcelona, and the other, a small triptych, is in Alquezar.

Master of Astorga (early 16th century) Spanish

Master of the Barbarigo Altarpiece (early 16th century), Italian

Master of the St Bartholomew Altarpiece [Master of the St Thomas Altarpiece

Early Netherlandish painter active in Germany; one of the most recognizable artists of the early Renaissance period in German art; his identity remains unknown, but it has been suggested that given the number of commissions he executed for the Carthusian order he may have been a member himself; his paintings are characterized by their use of bright, enamel-like colors and an affinity to the International Gothic style; op. 1470-1510.

Master known as 'BB', from the studio of Evaristo Baschenis (17th century), Italian

Master of Bedford [Master of the Duke of Bedford, Bedford Master]

A manuscript illuminator active in Paris during the fifteenth century, named for the work he did on two books illustrated for John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, English Regent in France 1422-1435, one a Book of Hours, the other a Breviary; active 1405-1435. The Bedford Master is known to have been the head of an atelier.

Master of the Béguins

? Flemish painter, possibly Abraham Willemsens (op. 1627-1672), active in Paris; his name is in reference to the type of peasant bonnet or béguin worn by many of the female figures in his paintings; the works now given to this artist were formerly attributed to the Le Nain brothers; flourished ca 1650-1670.

Master of the Berlin Passion

German or Netherlandish engraver, named after a Passion cycle of nine engravings (1482), of which seven were glued in a manuscript (Berlin, Kupferstichkab.) from the Lower Rhine, written in the convent of the Sisters of the Common Life at Arnheim; recently identified with Israhel van Meckenem's father; fl. 1450-1470.

Master of the Brussels Initials, Master of Egon, & the Third Painter

Master of the Burnham Collection – see Bonanal Zaortiga

Master of Canapost [Master of Seu d Urgell]

Late 15th-century Spanish (Catalan) painter known known by two different names whose artistic personality is apparent in a small group of works from Canapost, Girona and Seu d'Urgell, Puigcerdà and Perpignan.

Master of Cappenberg – See Jan Baegert

Master of Castelsardo

Italian artist who owes his name to the splendid altarpieces that are conserved in the Cathedral of Sant'Antonio Abate, Castelsardo; he is to be considered an artist of the first rank in the period in which Sardinia had become a meeting point for the trends of the Italian Renaissance and the Flemish and Catalan schools; active late 15th and early 16th centuries.

Master of the Champion des Dames, French

French illuminator tapestry desiger; known from 182 illuminations distributed in eight manuscripts, and of two tapestries; active north around the town of Lille during the second half of 15th century.

Master of the Cité des Dames

Prolific French illuminator, active in Paris during the first two decades of the 15th century; named after the five or more copies of Christine de Pisan’s Cité des Dames illustrated by the Master and his workshop; his early work is closely related to that of Jacquemart de Hesdin, with whom he executed the Barcelona Hours (ca 1401; Barcelona, Bib. Central, MS. 1850); both artists used the same Italianate method of modelling flesh tones with green underpaint, and many of Jacquemart’s figures and compositions were adopted by the Master of the Cité des Dames; although the Italian elements in his work are pronounced, it has been argued that he came from the Netherlands in consideration of his evocation of realistic detail in scenes of domestic and city life, his innovative treatment of landscape, and his distinctive rendering of interior space and architectural settings.

Master of Cologne – see Stephan Lochner

Master of the Death of the Virgin – see Joos van Cleve

Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary

Italian illuminator whose workshop specialized in manuscripts with rich and special border decoration for their rich and wealthy clientele; fl. Bruges, around 1500.

Master of Delft

Netherlandish painter named after the wings of the Triptych with the Virgin and Child with St Anne by the Master of Frankfurt, which is now in Aachen; the Master's works display the influence of Cornelis Engelbrechtsz, and he also incorporated quotations from the early prints of Lucas van Leyden; op. ca 1490-1520.

Master known as 'DS' (16th century), German.

Master of Egerton 1070

French miniaturist who may have been Netherlandish by birth, but his known activity is linked to Paris where he is known to have worked from ca 1405-1420.

Master of Egon – see Master of the Brussels Initials

Master of the Fiesole Epiphany [Maestro dell'Epifania di Fiesole] (late 15th century), Italian

Master of [Maestro de] Fonollosa (15th century), Spanish

Master [Maestro] Francesco [Master of the Teaching Christ]

Italian artist who worked in the late Gothic Tuscan tradition involving lavish use of gold, during the last years of the 14th century and the early years of the 15th century.

Master of Frankfurt [? Hendrik van Hueluwe]

South Netherlandish painter of the St Anna Altar painted (ca 1505) for the Dominican Priory in Frankfurt (now in the Städelsches Kunstintitut, Frankfurt) and to whom some some 40 paintings are attributed; he seems to have run a large and very active workshop in Antwerp from around 1490 until about 1520. Although we do not know his name there is a portrait of the Master of Frankfurt and his wife in the Royal Museum in Antwerp; he has been tentatively identified as Hendrik van Hueluwe, a free Master in Antwerp from 1483 onwards and a prominent member of the artists' Guild of St Luke during the early 16th century.

Master of the Glorification of Mary (fl. 1460-1480)

Master of Gysbrecht van Brederode

Netherlandish illuminator; fl. ca 1450-1475.

Master known as 'HB' = Hans Brosamer

Master known as 'HL'

German sculptor, wood-carver and engraver active ca 1511-1526 in Upper Rhine.

Master of the Holy Blood [Maître du Saint-Sang]

Name given to the anonymous Netherlandish painter of the triptych of the Lamentation that belonged to the Bruges Brotherhood of the Holy Blood. Some 30 works have been attributed to this Master, who has been characterized as a competent but unassuming practitioner; active in Bruges ca 1530.

Master of the Holy Night (op. early 16th century), Germany

Master of the Housebook [Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet]

German engraver and painter named for a series of vigorous and sophisticated drawings of everyday life found in the Hausbuch at Castle Wolfegg; many of his engravings are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; his work is thought to have influenced Bosch, Bruegel, and Dürer; he is apparently the first artist to use drypoint, a form of engraving, for all of his prints (other than woodcuts he may have designed); born 1430/5, died after 1480.

Master known as 'J.H.' (op. 1647-1666)

Master Jocomart – See Jaime Baco

Master of the Joseph Sequence

South Netherlandish artist active in Brussels (1490-1500), named after a series of tondi illustrating the Legend of St Joseph. Eight panels with scenes from the Life of Christ and the Life of the Virgin from the abbey of Afflighem have been attributed to the same painter and give the artist his alternative name.

Master of Lanaja = Blasco de Grañen

Master of the Leafy Embroidery [Master of the Embroidered Foliage]

A catch-all name referring to a group of painters active in Brussels and Bruges in the late fifteenth century who created a number of works that include foliage depicted in an almost mechanical technique, with small luminous raised marks, reminiscent of embroidery stitches; known from conflations or copies of Rogier van der Weyden’s work; active ca 1495-1500. Recent research suggests that some of the paintings attributed to this Master were in fact not created by a single artist. Instead, they were probably painted by different artists using a common source that circulated within one or among several workshops (Exhibition: Medieval Mystery, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2004).

Master of the Legend of St George

Painter, active in Germany, apparently an immigrant in Cologne, possibly of Netherlandish origin; named after the St George altarpiece (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne) the central panel of which is divided into four sections with multiple narrative scenes from the Life of St George; flourished 1460-1490).

Master of the Life of Mary (fl 1460-1480), German

Active in Cologne (fl. 1460-1480); named after a series of paintings of the Vigin's life in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.

Master of Longares = Enrique de Essencop

Master of the Louvre Nativity

Italian painter active in Florence (c.1460-1490), probably Fra Diamante (according to Bernard Berenson). Fra Diamante was a Carmelite prior and frescoist who was the friend and assistant of Filippo Lippi; born Prato (c.1430), died c. 1498.

Master of the St Lucy Legend

South Netherlandish painter and draughtsman who takes his name from a group of some 45-50 paintings linked stylistically to the panel of the Legend of St Lucy (1480; Bruges, St Jacob); The Master’s paintings are technically proficient reworkings of established themes; the static compositions, cool colours and subdued emotion of his works give his paintings a solemn, rather than expressive, effect; active ca 1475–1505.

Master of the Lyversberg Passion

Flemish artist who worked in Cologne, known for a number of altarpiece sections formerly in the Lyversberg Collection which are now to be found at Cologne and Nuremberg; active 1460-1490.

Master of the Mailänd Offertory (16th century)

Master of the Manassei Chapel (late 14th century), Italian (Florentine)

Thought by Berenson to have been Angelo [or Agnolo] Gaddi di Taddeo (ca 1350-1396), by Salvrini to be the Master of Vicchio di Rimaggio (op. ca 1390), and by Zeri to be a follower of Angelo Gaddi, etc., etc.

Master of Maria am Gestade (op. ca 1460), Austrian.

Master of the Mazarine Manuscript (fl. 1410-1415), French.

Master of the Milan Adoration – See Jan de Beer

Master of Olot

The anonymous late 15th-century Spanish painter of a series of altarpieces parish church of St Stephen at Olot, Santa Cristina Hermitage, Rigardà and elsewhere in a Flemish-influenced style; the suggested identification of this artist as Miquel Torell (op. 1471-1487) is controversial.

Master of Ottobeuren [Meister von Ottobeuren], German (Memmingen)

Master of the Ovile Madonna – see Bartolomeo Bulgarini

Master of Perea [Maestro de Perea] (late 15th century), Spanish

Little known Spanish Gopthic painter active in Valencia in the late 15th century; he was amongst those that first adopted the innovations of the Quattrocento; his style combines Italian-style landscapes properly constructed according to their geometric perspective with the older Gothic style in the rendering of the figures and the application of gold leaf to some surfaces; his name refers to an altarpiece made for Pedro de Perea in the church of the monastery of Portacoeli;

Master of the Pollinger Panels [Meister der Pollinger Tafeln] (15th century), Bavarian

German (Bavarian) artist (possibly Gabriel Angler, fl. 1434-1482); one of the most distinctive artists in early Bavarian painting who created a series of paintings formerly in the convent church at Polling, two from an altarpiece depicting the life of the Virgin; eight others illustrate the foundation of a monastery and formed the wings of an elaborate cruciform altarpiece.

Master of the Prayer Book of 1500

Flemish painter of illuminated manuscripts active in Bruges; his name is derived from a collection of devotional manuscripts from the same artist dating to about the start of the 16th century; notwithstanding his name, the Master is best known for the work he did painting secular images, incorporating details from daily life in a number of his original narratives; his interest in courtly life, as well as the daily activities of the lower classes, may be seen as well in his paintings for calendars; op. 1485 - c.1520.

Master of the Putti [Maestro dei Putti] (op. 1680-1690), Italian

Master of the Saluces Hours (15th century), French

The Saluces Book of Hours dates from the second half of the 15th century (probably the third quarter). Although it came from Saluzzo, the illuminator's name is derived from that part of Savoy which is now in France.

Master of Seu d Urgell – See Master of Canapost

Master of the St Thomas Altarpiece – See Master of the St Bartholomew Altarpiece

Master of La Secuita [Maestro de La Secuita](15th century), Spanish

Master of the Stockholm Musicans (17th century), Dutch

Master of the Teaching Christ Master = Master Francesco

Master of the Trapani Polyptych

Early fifteenth-century Italian artist, most likely a Sicilian, influenced by contemporary Tuscan painters.

Master of the van Morrison Triptych (15th century)

Two works containing recorders previously thought to be by this artist are now attributed to an anonymous Netherlandish Master of the early 16th century.

Master of the Vitae Imperatorum

Italian illuminator, amongst the formemost of those employed at the court of the Visconti; active Milan (1431-1459).

Master of the Vraie cronicque descoce

Flemish illuminator, a follower of Willem Vrelant (ca 1450-1475). The focus on recorders in the illuminations detailed below is similar to those by an anonymous artist in a 15th-century French manuscript version of the Eclogues held in the Bibliotheque Municipale, Dijon.

Master of the Västerås Triptych (op. Antwerp, ca 1515-1520), Flemish

Master of Viella (late 15th century), Spanish

Master known as 'WR' (16th century), German.

Master XXX with an L (op. ca 1559), Dutch

Master of Zweder van Culemborg precursor, Dutch

Miniaturist, active in Utrecht (op. ca 1425).

Jacob [Jacques] Matham

Dutch engraver, draughtsman and painter; born Haarlem (1571), died Haarlem (1631); stepson of the pre-eminent engraver Hendrick Goltzius, whose style he closely imitated; father of Theodor Matham (1605/6-1676).

Theodor [or Dirk] Matham

Dutch engraver and draughtsman; born Harlem (1605/6), died Amsterdam (1676); son of Jacob Matham (1571-1631).

Pieter Matthijsz. (17th century), Netherlands

Paolo de Matteis

Italian painter and silversmith working in Naples, Paris, Calabria, Genoa, Rome; painted frescoes, altarpieces and allegorical and mythological pictures; born Piano del Cilento near Salerno (1662), died Naples (1728).

Taco Iwashima Matthews

Contemporary Japanese-born graphic artist.

Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo [Matteo da Siena]

Italian painter working in Sienna influenced by the discoveries and innovations of the early 15th-century Florentine school; born ca 1430?, died 1495.

Paulus Matthysz

Dutch music-printer, composer, publisher prominent in Amsterdam; probably an amateur recorder player himself, he published Jacob van Eyck's Der Fluyten Lust-hof and a collection entitled 't Uitnement Kabinet; born 1614, died 1684. Three extant copies of Der Fluyten Lust-hof include the tutor Vertoninge en Onderwyzinge op de Handt-fluit (1649), presumably by Matthysz, and a tutor by Gerband van Blanckenburgh, Onderwyzinge hoeman alle de Toonen…op de Handt-Fluyt (1655/6).

Christoph Murer [Maurer]

Swiss glass painter, woodcut designer, etcher, illustrator and playwright; he lived much of his life in Strassbourg, often working in collaboration with his fellow Swiss artist, Tobias Stimmer; born Zurich (1558), died Winterthur (1614).

Moshe Maurer (1891-1971)

Austro-Hungarian-born artist who emigrated to Holland and thence to London where he lived and worked; his oil paintings and watercolours depict everyday Jewish life and religious ceremonies, and stories from the Jewish ghettos; born Brody in Ostgalizien (1891), died London (1971).

Lodovico [Ludovico] Mazzanti

Italian painter; works include religous and mythological subjects, and portraits; born Orvieto (1679), died 1775.

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

Italian painter and draughtsman of the Parma School; born Viadana (ca 1505), died Parma (ca 1569-1570); cousin and disciple of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (Parmigianino), to whom many of his works have been attributed.

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola [Mazzuoli] = Parmigianino

Angelo Mazzoleni

Contemporary Italian painter working in Bergamo; his work has embraced the use of archetypes and symbols, primitivism, and neosincretismo; many of his works are paintings in oil or mixed technique on canvas, but he has also used acrylics, tempera, sand and special plasters and pastas, fabrics, and has modelled in clay and other materials; born Florence (1952). Web Page.

Lodovico Mazzolino [Mazzuoli, Manzulin or Mazzuoli da Ferrara] (ca 1480-p. 1530), Italian

J.G. Meall

English artist, active 1674-1675.

Richard Meares (English)

Israhel & J. van Meckenem

Dutch artists (father and son with same name) who worked in Boscholt and Cleves (active 1450-1503).

Reinier Megan [Meganck or Meganet] (1637-1690), Flemish

Johann Caspar [Kaspar] Meglinger (1595 – ca 1670), Swiss

Meissen Porcelain

Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first European hard-paste porcelain. It was developed by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in 1708 whose work was continued by Johann Friedrich Böttger who brought porcelain to the market, and has often been credited with the invention. The production of porcelain at Meissen, near Dresden, started in 1710 and attracted artists and artisans to establish one of the most famous porcelain manufacturers, still in business today as Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH. Its crossed swords logo, one of the oldest trademarks in existence, was introduced in 1720 to protect its production. Meissen dominated the style of European porcelain until 1756.

Johann Peter Melchior

German master porcelain modeler who worked for three German manufactories: Hochst, Frankenthal, and Nymphenburg; many of his models were based on Boucher's paintings and demonstrate extraordinary skill in translating their delicate mythological or pastoral scenes into figure groups; as rococo figures went out of fashion as table decorations in the 1770s, Melchior contributed designs to neo-classical tablewares and figurines, adding playful putti and cupids to tureens and in relief on urns, and he fashioned classical busts that could either be painted and glazed to resemble bronze or left in the biscuit state; born Lintorf, now part of Ratingen near Dusseldorf (before 1747), died ? Munich (1825).

Andrea Meldolla = Andrea Schiavone

Altobello dei Meloni

Italian painter known for his expressionistic religious frescoes, and fine portraits; born Cremona (ca 1490), died ca 1547.

Elif Memisoglu (contemporary), USAmerican

Hans Memling

Leading Flemish painter of the Bruges school during the period of the city's political and commercial decline; his altarpieces, devotional diptychs and triptychs, and portraits are characterized by their gentle, sweet tranquillity; born Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt am Main ( ca 1430/35), died Bruges (1494).

Anton Raffael [Raphael] Mengs

German fresco and portrait painter who settled in Italy and also worked in Spain, decorating the Royal Palaces at Madrid and Arunjuez; the leader of the Neo-classical reform in painting and as highly regarded as Tiepolo in his day, though his frescos seem dull and sterile to us; born ? Dresden (1728), died 1779; son of a court painter of Dresden, Ismael Mengs (d. 1764).

Philip [Philippe, Pierre-Philippe] Mercier

French painter and etcher who worked in London; his works comprise domestic genre and conversation pieces; born Berlin 1689/1691, died London 1760.

Marin Mersenne (17th century), French

French priest, mathematician, natural philosopher and theologian; born near Oizé, Maine (1588), died, Paris (1648).

Gabriel Metsu (also spelled Metzu)

Dutch painter of genre scenes of everyday middle-class Dutch life, executed with consummate taste in color and tone; he also painted some history subjects and occasional portraits and still lifes; born Leiden (1629), died Amsterdam (1667); son of the painter Jacques Metsu.

Quentin Metsys [Massijs]

Flemish artist, the leading painter in Antwerp from ca 1510 until his death; his eclectic style was borrowed from Leonardo, Dürer, van Eyck, van der Weyden and van der Goes amongst others; produced portraits, satirical or genre works, and religious paintings, the latter often against a mountainous landscape painted in aerial perspective; born ca 1465/6, died Antwerp (1530).

Johann Georg Mettel (18th century), German

N. Metteli (18th century), Italian.

Christian Wilhelm Meyer

German sculptor and porcelain modeller active in Berlin; born 1761, died 1788.

Michael & Eutychios = Michael & Eutychios Astrapas

Théobald Michau

Flemish painter of mostly small-scale cabinet pictures depicting landscapes, river views, scenes of winter, markets and villages, peopled with tiny figures strolling or working, sometimes celebrating or drinking, often dressed in blue or red and accompanied by a few animals; born Doornik [Tournai] (1676), died Antwerp (1765).

Claude Michel, called 'Clodion'

French sculptor who worked in Rome and Paris; he enjoyed a wide reputation until the French Revolution when the rococo style was superseded by neo-classicism; a superb modeler of small-scale terra cotta pieces, he also excelled at carving marble with subtlety and precision, including some life-size pieces.

Jean Michelin

French artist; born Langres (1623), died Jersey (1696).

Jan Miel

Dutch painter, active in Rome and Turin, one of the Bambocciate, a group of mainly Dutch artists that worked in Rome in the mid seventeenth century, followers of Pieter van Laer, who was nicknamed 'il Bamboccio' (meaning puppet or large baby) because of his physically deformed body; most of his pictures are scenes of low life, but he also painted frescoes in Roman churches and palaces, and figures for Claude's landscapes; born Beveren-Was, near Antwerp (1599), died Turin (1663).

Hans Mielich [Muelich]

German artist; the leading painter in Bavaria in the mid-sixteenth century; born ca 1516, died 1573.

Frans van Mieris the Elder

Dutch artist from an illustrious family of goldsmiths and painters; his minutely proportioned subjects with bright colors, a shiny finish, and precise attention to detail were painted on small wooden or copper panel; he represented common incidents in the lives of the working class as well as the habits and customs of the wealthy; born Leiden (1635), died 1691); father of Jan van Mieris and Willem van Mieris (1635-1681).

Willem van Mieris

Dutch artist and teacher from an illustrious family of goldsmiths and painters; he adopted his father'style, but besides genre pieces also produced portraits, landscapes, history pieces and mythological subjects; after 1700 Van Mieris specialised in shop and kitchen interiors; his dispassionate, meticulous style was much admired; born Leiden (1662), died Leiden (1747); son of Frans van Mieris (1635-1681), brother of brother of Jan van Mieris.

Pierre Mignard, called le Romain

French painter and frescoist in the classical Baroque manner, active in Rome and Paris; known primarily for his court portraits (many of them allegorical), but also historical and regious paintings; his style was based on the approved models of the Carracci, Domenichino and Poussin; he was strongly opposed to the Académie royale, and, in spite of his own stylistic origins, championed the Venetian or 'colourist' school; born Troyes (1610), died Paris (1695).

Gustav Adolph Millar (18th century), Austrian

Lloyd Miller

Contemporary USAmerican graphic artist and designer based in New York with a reputation for creating complex hybrid images. Artist's Web-site.

Carl Milles

Swedish sculptor, born Carl Emil Wilhelm Andersson; apprenticed as a cabinetmaker and studied sculpture at evening classes followed by study in Paris where he worked as a coffin-maker and at other jobs while attending lectures at the Sorbonne; later joined Auguste Rodin's studio; born Uppsala (1875), died Millesgården (1955).

Hendrick van Minderhout

Dutch artist; born Rotterdam (1532), died Antwerp (1696).

Pablo Minguet e Yrol

Spanish writer and engraver who published a series popular manuals on subjects ranging from from religion to magic tricks. Among them were Academia musical de los instrumentos (Madrid, 1752-1754), a set of instrumental tutors.

Misume (contemporary)

Agostino Mitelli

Italian painter active in Bologna and Madrid; specialised in quadriatura; born 1609, died 1660.

Nicoletto [Rosex] da Modena [called Nicolo Rosa] (op. 1500-1522), Italian

Jean Baptiste Moerkercke (? – 1689), Flemish

Pier Francesco [Pierfrancesco] Mola

Italian artist, one of the chief representatives of a distinctively romantic strain in Roman painting in the mid-17th-century, whose style is characterized by warm colouring and soft modelling; he painted frescos in Roman churches and palaces, but his best-known works are small canvases with religious or mythological figures set in landscapes; born Coldrerio, near Como (1612), died Rome (1666).

Jan Miense Molenaer

Dutch artist known for his genre paintings of drinkers, lute-players, girls at the spinet and social gatherings, and dark accounts of peasant life; he also painted regigious scences, allegories and portraits; born Haarlem (ca 1610), died Haarlem (1668), husband of Judith Leyster (1609-1660).

Molinaretto = Giovane Maria delle Piane

Antonio Molinari

Italian baroque painter of the Venetian School; he typically painted tumultuous narratives of mythology and religion in large canvases; his characteristic manner of depicting figures was in poses of extreme torsion and vigorous movement; born Venice (1655), died Venice (1704).

Paolo Monaldi

Italian figurative and landscape painter and frescoist, active in Rome; his works include bambocciate, scenes of simple country life (games, dances and drinking sessions) in settings that are characteristically amongst ruined buildings, and a few religious paintings; active 1720-1799.

Cristoforo Monari – see Cristoforo Munari

Monogrammist AB (17th century), Italian (Bergamo)

Monogrammist AH

Artist active in Southern Netherlands ca 1500.

Monogrammist B

Italian engraver in the style of the Italian printmaker and painter Giulio Giulio (di Antonio) Bonasone (ca. 1510 - a. 1576); active mid-sixteenth century.

Monogrammist CM

This artist may be Christoph Murer.

Monogrammist CVN (1731-1795), Dutch = Cornelis van Noorde

Monogrammist CVP (17th century), Flemish

Monogrammist ES (op. ca 1440-1468) German

Monogrammist FM (17th century), Dutch

Monogrammist FMD (18th century), German

Monogrammist FP

Monogrammist GB – See Guillaume Benson

Monogrammist GP = Georg Pencz

Monogrammist HS (early 18th century), ? Danish

Monogrammist H***W*** (op. 17th century), Dutch

Monogrammist MT, possibly Martin Treu (16th century), German

Monogrammist SPQ

Monogrammist Z (18th century), German

Bartolommeo/Bartolomeo Montagna

Italian early Renaissance painter, the most eminent master of the school of Vicenza whose paintings shows a crystal-clear sense of construction and volume; born Brescia (ca 1450), died Vicenza (1523).

Carel de Moor

Netherlandish artist, the greatest of the so-called "Leiden Fine Painters"; born Leiden or Warmond (1656), died 1739.

Charles Moreau (1830-?)

Jean François Moreau (18th century), Netherlands

Hippolyte François Moreau

French sculptor who worked in bronze and marble; born Dijon (1832), died Neuilly-sur-Seine (1927); second son of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Moreau.

Paulus Janszoon Moreelse

Dutch painter and architect, best known for his portraits of shepherds and blonde shepherdesses with a deep decolletage; designed the Catherine Gate (destroyed) and possibly the façade of the Meat Market in Utrecht; born Utrecht (1571), died Utrecht (1638).

Moretto da Brescia [born Alessandro Buonvicino (or Bonvincino)]

Italian artist, active mainly in his native Brescia where he was the leading painter of his day; he established a large practice as painter of altarpieces and other religious works, the best of which display a characteristic gravity and poetic feeling for nature; also painted portraits and is now credited with introducing the independent full-length portrait to Italy; born Brescia (ca 1498), died 1554.

Barbara Brooks Morgan

American artist whose drawings, prints, watercolors and paintings were widely exhibited in the 1920s and 1930s; she turned to photography in 1935 exploring both expressionist and manipulated image photography; she became well-known for her penetrating studies of modern dancers such as Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and José Limón; born southern California (1900), died 1992.

Berthe(-Marie-Pauline) Morisot

French painter and printmaker; an original, influential and highly regarded member of the Impressionists of whom she was the most intimate, depicting people happy and at home; with her sister Edma, she worked as a copyist in the Louvre; born Bourges (1841), died Paris (1895); grandaughter of the artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), and sister-in-law of the Realist painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883).

P. Morley

Giovanni Battista Moroni

Italian Renaissance painter notable for his sober and dignified portraits of almost photographic precision; born Abino (1525), died Bergamo (1578).

William Morris

British craftsman, designer, writer, typographer, and Socialist; his career as a designer led to the formation of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. in 1861 (later renamed Morris & Co) was particularly well-known for its stained glass, examples of which can be seen in churches throughout Britain. Morris produced some 150 designs which are often characterised by their delightful foliage patterns; born Walthamstow (1834) died Hammersmith (1896).

Carla Moss

American sculptor working in clay, bronze and other media; her works include, figurative, zoological, marine, and figurative subjects as well as public art; born San Francisco.

John Mossman (1817-1890)

Scottish sculptor and teacher working in Glasgow, completing many well known statues, busts and friezes for public buildings and spaces there. These include statues of Sir Robert Peel, Thomas Campbell and David Livingstone, all in George Square; founder member of the Glasgow School of Art where he taught modelling; his firm of J & G Mossman produced an enormous quantity of monuments for cemetries in Glasgow and elsewhere in Scotland; born 1817, died 1890.

Christophe Moucherel

French turner, cabinet-maker, type-founder and organ builder; he built his first organ in 1716; by the time he was commissioned for the monumental organ for Albi Cathedral in 1734, he had already completed 12 organs and had worked on another 25; after completing the instrument at Albi in 1737, he went on to build the organs at Castres and Narbonne, and at the Abbey of Boulbonne; after 1761 there is no further trace of him; born Toul (1686), died p. 1761.

Henry Siddons Mowbray

American artist known for his genre, figure and decorative paintings; born Alexandria, Egypt (1858), died 1929.

Isaac Muillon

French artist; born Paris (1614), died 1673.

Wilhelmine Christana Müler (18th century), German

Mulinaretto = Giovanni Maria dalle Piane

Albert Müller-Single (19th century)

Karl Friedrich Moritz Müller (1822-1865), German

Cristoforo [Cristofano] Munari [Monari, Monarico]

Italian artist specialising in still-life painting; his style is characterized by a realistic treatment of detail and a subtle play of reflections and transparencies, suggestive of the manner of such Dutch artists as Jan de Heem; born Reggio Emilia (1667), died Pisa (1720).

Vic Muniz

Brazilian-born artist who now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Sao Paolo; born Sao Paolo (1961). Artist's web page here.

Serapio Hernández Muñoz

Spanish woodcarver and writer born in Avila where he worked as a shepherd from the age of 6 for 3 pesetas a day until he was old enough for military service; he taught himself woodcarving to while away the hours; later he performed various jobs and emigrated to Germany, after many years returning to Madrid. Artist's web page.

Ramón de Mur

Spanish (Catalan) painter; known primarily as an imitator than a creative artist, but he was a fine colourist and there is a sense of richness and elegance in his works, reminiscent of Franco-Flemish manuscript illumination; active in the provinces of Tarragona and Lérida (early 14th century). Attempts to identify Ramon de Mur with Bernat Martorell have not been generally accepted, although he may perhaps have worked in his atelier and their works have been confused.

Francesco de Mura

Italian late baroque painter of religious subjects and portraits active in Naples and Turin; his later style tends to neoclassicism; born Naples (1696), died Naples (1782).

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-1682)

Spanish Baroque religious painter noted for his soft sfumato and idealized, sometimes precious manner; born Seville (1618), died Seville (1682).

Domenico Muzzi

Italian court painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Parma; born Parma (1742), died 1812.

Pietro Muttoni – see Pietro della Vechia

Roz [Rosemary] Myers

Contemporary English lithographer, print-maker, wood-engraver and painter with a dual focus on recording buildings which are old and in danger of vanishing, and on cats; lives and works in Cambridge.

Click to return to Recorder Home Page

© Copyright 1996-2011, N.S. Lander
Webmaster: Nicholas S. Lander