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Title: The Venetian School of Painting

Author: Evelyn March Phillipps

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Language: English

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Transcriber's note:

1) Variations in the spelling of names and recording of some
questionable dates have been left as printed in the original
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2) Chapter IX--Sala del Gran Consiio possibly should be Sala
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THE VENETIAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING

[Illustration: _Giorgione._
MADONNA WITH S. LIBERALE AND S. FRANCIS.
_Castelfranco._
(_Photo, Anderson._)]

THE VENETIAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING

by

EVELYN MARCH PHILLIPPS

With Illustrations

Books for Libraries Press
Freeport, New York

First Published 1912
Reprinted 1972

International Standard Book Number: 0-8369-6745-3
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-37907

Printed in the United States of America
By
New World Book Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Hallandale, Florida 33009

PREFACE

Many visits to Venice have brought home the fact that there exists,
in English at least, no work which deals as a whole with the Venetian
School and its masters. Biographical catalogues there are in plenty, but
these, though useful for reference, say little to readers who are not
already acquainted with the painters whose career and works are briefly
recorded. "Lives" of individual mast