Michele, Parrasic, a Venetian painter, flourished about 1590. He was a pupil of Paul Veronese. He executed several works for the churches, especially a Pieta, in a chapel of the church of San Giuseppe, into which he introduced a portrait of himself. See Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine Arts (N. Y. 1865, 2 vols. 8vo).
Michelians. See Hahn, Michel ; Korntiial, Society of.
Michelini, Gio. Battista, a painter of religious subjects, who flourished about 1650, was a native of Fo- ligno. He was a pupil of Guido Reni, and wrought in the churches of the Romagna. Lanzi says there are several of his works at Gubbio, and mentions particu- larly a Dead Christ. But little is known of him. See Lanzi's Hist, of Painting, transl. by Roscoe (Loud. 1847, 3 vols. 8vo), i, 460 ; Spooner, Biog. Hist, of the Fine A rts (N.Y.1865, 2 vols. 8vo).
Michelozzi (orMichelozzo), a celebrated Flor- entine sculptor and architect, was born in 1396. He was a pupil of Donatello, and the greater part of the se- pulchral monument erected for pope Giovanni Coscia, in the church of San Giovanni at Florence, by Donatello, is in reality the work of Michelozzi. In the same church is a "beautiful statue of Faith, which was execu- ted by JMichelozzi as a companion to the two statues of Hope' und Charity by his master. Over the sacristy and the rooms of the superintendents, which are opposite to San Giovanni, Michelozzi executed a full relief of
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San Giovanni, which was afterwards removed, and is I tire down the wady to Gilgal, near Jericho, that from now in the Florentine Gallery, in the corridor of bronzes, that ancient sanctuary he might collect and reassure the As an architect, Michelozzi had deservedly a high rep- , Israelites. Michmas was then occupied by the Pliilis- utation. He built, among many other line buildings, tines, and was their furthest post to the east, iiut it the library of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, was destined to witness their sudden overthrow. While a house of the Black :Monks"of Santa (Jiustina. In 1437 j he was in Geba, and his father in Michmas, Jonathan lie commenced the construction of the convent of San ( must have crossed the intervening valley too often not Marco, which was linished, at a cost of 3(3,000 ducats, in to know it thoroughly ; and the intricate paths which 1452. Michelozzi also constructed for Cosmo de' Med- ] render it impossible for a stranger to find his way through
ici the noviciate of Santa Croce, which, for beauty of form and decoration, will compare favorably with any work of this master. The convent of the Barefooted Monks of St. Francis, the church and convent of the monks of San Girolamo, and many other works of purely secidar character, are by this distinguished man. He died in 1470, and was buried in his own tomb, in the church of San IMarco, in Florence. — Vasari, Lifts of the Painters, transl. by Jlrs. Foster (Lond. 1850, 5 vols. 8vo), 1,494; Quatremere de Quiucy, I'ies des Archiiectes illus- ires.
Michl, Antox, a German Roman Catholic theolo- gian, was born in 1753 at Ebersberg, Bavaria; was edu- cated at Freysing, and ordained in 1770. lie aftcr- Avards studied law and ecclesiastical liistory, and was in 1799 appointed professor of ecclesiastical law and history at Landshut. lie was a faithful adherent of the gov- ernment party, at that time, as in our own day, deci- dedly anti-Romanistic in feeling and tendency, and
the mounds and hummocks that crowd the bottom of the ravine — with these he was so familiar — the pas- sages here, the sharp rocks there — as to be able to trav- erse them even in the dark. It was just as the day dawned (Joseph. Ant. vi, 6, 2) that the watchers in the garrison at Michmas descried the two Hebrews clam- bering up the steeps beneath. We learn from the de- tails furnished by Joseplius, who must have had an op- portunity of examining the spot when he passed it with Titus on their way to the siege of Jerusalem (see Wai; V, 2, 1), that the part of Michmas in which the Philis- tines had established themselves consisted of three sum- mits, surrounded by a line of rocks like a natural en- trenchment, and ending in a long and sharp precipice, believed to be impregnal)le. Finding himself observed from above, and taking the invitation as an omen in his favor, Jonathan turned from the course which he was at first pursuing, and crept up in the direction of the point reputed impregnable. It was there, according to Jose- Michl thereby made many friends even among the Pli"s> t'lat lie and his armor-bearer made their entrance Protestants, who looked upon him as a friend of liberty to the camp (Josephus, .4 nt. vi, 6, 2)" (Smith). See
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and of light. He died at Landshut in 1813. several dissertations, he published Kirchenrecht Jiir Ka- tlioUken und Prottstanten, mit Hinsicht anf den Code Napoleon und ilh hm/i /■isr/n n i.iiiidi y;/, s< /:.r (Munchen, 1809) ; and Kin-/,, n;/, srhh-hi, , ll,i,l. 1mi7 11,2 vols.Svo).
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GiBEAii ; Jonathan. It was inhabited, after the re- turn from Babylon (Neh. xi, 31), by 122 returned colo- nists (Ezra ii, 27; Neh. vii, 31). Euscbius describes Michmas as a large village nine Roman miles from Je- rusalem, on the road to Ramah {Onomast. s. v. Maxima). Travellers have usually identified it with Bir or el-Bireh (see Maundrell, jVIarch 25 ; and the details in Quares- mius, Elucidato, ii, 78G, 787) ; but Dr. liobinson {Re- searches, ii, 117) recognises it in a place still bearing the name ot'Jlfidhmas, at a distance and position which cor- respond well with these intimations. It is small, and almost desolate, but bears marks of having once been a place of strength and importance. There are many iiundations of hewn stones, and some columns lie among