MARCELLE, ADELE, Duchess of Castiglione-Colonna, family name d’Affry.  Born at Fribourg, Switzerland, 1837, and died at Castellamare, 1879.  Her early manner was that of the later Cinquecento, but she afterward adopted a rather bombastic and theatrical style.  Her only statue, a Pythia, in bronze was placed in the Grand Opera at Paris (1870).  In the Luxembourg Museum are marble busts of Bianca Capello (1863) and an “Abyssinian Sheikh” (1870).  A “Gorgon” (1865), a “Saviour” (1875), “La Bella Romana” (1875) are among her other works.  She left her art treasures, valued at about fifty thousand francs, to the Cantonal Museum at Fribourg, where they occupy a separate room, called the Marcello Museum.

MARCOVIGI, CLEMENTINA. Born in Bologna, where she resides.  Flower pieces exhibited by her at Turin in 1884 and at Venice in 1887 were commended for perfection of design and charm of color.

MARIA FEODOROVNA, wife of the Czar Peter I. As Princess Dorothea Auguste Sophie of Wuertemberg she was born at Trepton in 1759, and died at Petersburg in 1858.  She studied under Leberecht, and engraved medals and cameos, many of which are portraits of members of the royal family and are in the royal collection at Petersburg.  She was elected to the Berlin Academy in 1820.

MARIANI, VIRGINIA. Honorary member of the Umbrian Academy and of the Academy of the Virtuosi of the Pantheon.  Born in Rome, 1824, where she has met with much success in decorating pottery, as well as in oil and water-color paintings.  The Provincial Exposition at Perugia in 1875 displayed her “Mezze Figure,” which was highly commended.  She has decorated cornices, with flowers in relief, as well as some vases that are very beautiful.  Besides teaching in several institutions and receiving private pupils, she has been an inspector, in her own department of art, of the municipal schools of Rome.

MARIE, DUCHESS OF WUeRTEMBERG. Daughter of Louis Philippe, and wife of Duke Frederick William Alexander of Wuertemberg.  Born at Palermo, 1813, and died at Pisa, 1839.  She studied drawing with Ary Scheffer.  Her statue of “Jeanne d’Arc” is at Versailles; in the Ferdinand Chapel, in the Bois de Boulogne, is the “Peri as a Praying Angel”; in the Saturnin Chapel at Fontainebleau is a stained-glass window with her design of “St. Amalia.”  Among her other works are “The Dying Bayard,” a relief representing the legend of the Wandering Jew, and a bust of the Belgian Queen.  Many of her drawings are in possession of her family.  She also executed some lithographs, such as “Souvenirs of 1812,” 1831, etc.

MARIE LOUISE, EMPRESS OF FRANCE. 1791-1846.  She studied under Prud’hon.  Her “Girl with a Dove” is in the Museum of Besancon.

MARLEF, CLAUDE. Bronze medal at Paris Exposition, 1900.  Associate of the French National Society of Fine Arts (Beaux-Arts).  Born at Nantes.  Pupil of A. Roll, Benjamin Constant, Puvis de Chavannes, and Dagnaux.