Previtali or Bissolo, or if the
teaching was handed on by them in a still more diluted form to the
lesser men who clustered round, much of whose work has survived and has
been masquerading for centuries under more distinguished names. It is
sometimes affirmed that the loss of originality in the endeavour to
paint like greater men has been a symptom of decay in every school in
the past. It is interesting to notice, therefore, that in every great
age of painting there has always been an undercurrent of imitation,
which has helped to form a stream of tradition, and which, as far as
we can see, has done no harm to the stronger spirits of the time.

PRINCIPAL WORKS

_Cima._

Berlin. Madonna with four Saints; Two Madonnas.
Conegliano. Duomo: Madonna and Saints, 1493.
Dresden. The Saviour; Presentation of Virgin.
London. Two Madonnas; Incredulity of S. Thomas; S. Jerome.
Milan. Brera: Six pictures of Saints; Madonna.
Parma. Madonna with Saints; Another; Endymion; Apollo and Marsyas.
Paris. Madonna with Saints.
Venice. Academy: Madonna with SS. John and Paul; Pieta; Madonna
with six Saints; Incredulity of S. Thomas; Tobias and the
Angel.
Carmine: Adoration of the Shepherds.
S. Giovanni in Bragora: Baptism, 1494; SS. Helen and
Constantine; Three Predelle; Finding of True Cross.
SS. Giovanni and Paolo: Coronation of the Virgin.
S. Maria dell' Orto: S. John Baptist and SS. Paul, Jerome,
Mark, and Peter.
Lady Layard. Madonna with SS. Francis and Paul; Madonna with
SS. Nicholas of Bari and John Baptist.
Vicenza. Madonna with SS. Jerome and John, 1489.

_Vincenzo Catena._

Bergamo. Carrara: Christ at Emmaus.
Berlin. Portrait of Fugger; Madonna, Saints, and Donor (E.).
Dresden. Holy Family (L.).
London. Warrior adoring Infant Christ (L.); S. Jerome in his Study (L.);
Adoration of Magi (L.).
Mr. Benson: Holy Family.
Lord Brownlow: Nativity.
Mond Collection: Madonna, Saints, and Donors (E.).
Paris. Venetian Ambassadors at Cairo.
Venice. Ducal Palace: Madonna, Saints, and Doge Loredan (E.).
Giovanelli Palace: Madonna and Saints.
S. Maria Mater Domini: S. Cristina.
S. Trovaso: Madonna.
Vienna. Portrait of a Canon.

_Marco Basaiti._

Bergamo. The Savi