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MUZZIOLI (1854-1894)  , Italian painter, was born in Modena, whither his family had removed from Castelvetro, on the loth of February 1854 . From the time that he began to attend the local academy at the age of thirteen he was recognized as a prodigy, and four years later, by the unanimous vote of the judges, he gained the Poletti scholarship entitling him to four years' residence in Rome and Florence . After his return to Modena, Muzzioli visited the Paris Exhibition, and there came under the influence of Sir L . Alma Tadema . His first important picture was " In the Temple of Bacchus " (1831); and his masterpiece, " The Funeral of Britannicus," was one of the chief successes of the Bologna . Exhibition of 1888 . From 1878 to his death (August 5, 1894) Muzzioli lived in Florence, where' he painted the altar-piece for the church of Castelvetro . See History of Modern Italian Art, by A . R . Willard (London, 1898) .