possibly by
Bissolo.
Two other repetitions exist, one at Stuttgart, the other in the
collection of Sir William Farrer. (Venetian Exhibition, New Gallery,
1894, No. 76.)
[24] Gentile Bellini's three portraits in the National Gallery (Nos.
808, 1213, 1440) illustrate this growing tendency in Venetian art; all
three probably date from the first years of the sixteenth century.
Gentile died in 1507.
[25] Berenson: _Venetian Painters_, 3rd edition.
[26] _Daily Telegraph_, December 29th, 1899.
[27] Even the so-called Pseudo-Basaiti has been separated and
successfully diagnosed.
[28] 1895 Catalogue.
[29] See Appendix, where the letters are printed in full.
[30] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, ii. 142, and note.
[31] Giorgione painted in fresco in the portico of this palace. Zanetti
has preserved the record of a figure said to be "Diligence," in his
print published in 1760.
[32] See Byron's _Life and Letters_, by Thomas Moore, p. 705.
[33] See Berenson's _Venetian Painters_, illustrated edition.
[34] Morelli, ii. 219.
[35] See p. 32 for a possible explanation of these letters.
[36] ii. 218
[37] It has been suggested to me by Dr. Williamson that the letters may
possibly be intended for ZZ (=Zorzon). In old MSS. the capital Z is
sometimes made thus _[closed V]_ or _V._
[38] i. 248.
[39] The methods by which he arrived at his conclusion are strangely at
variance with those he so strenuously advocates, and to which the name
of Morellian has come to be attached.
[40] Reproduced in _Venetian Art at the New Gallery_, under Giorgione's
name, but unanimously recognised as a work of Licinio.
[41] i. 249.
[42] Dr. Bode and Signor Venturi both recognise it as Giorgione's work.
[43] To what depths of vulgarity the Venetian School could sink in later
times, Palma Giovane's "Venus" at Cassel testifies.
[44] _Repertorium fuer Kunstwissenschaft_. 1896. xix. Band. 6 Heft.
[45] _North American Review_, October 1899.
[46] It was photographed by Braun with this attribution.
[47] Catena has adopted this Giorgionesque conception in his "Judith" in
the Querini-Stampalia Gallery in Venice.
[48] See _Gazette des Beaux Arts_, 1897, tom, xviii. p. 279.
[49] See _Gazette des Beaux Arts_, 1893, tom. ix. p. 135 (Prof.
Wickhoff); 1894, tom. xii. p. 332 (Dr. Gronau); and _Repertorium fuer
Kunstwissenschaft_, tom. xiv. p. 316 (Herr von Seidlitz).
[50] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, ii. 147.
[51] ii. 217.
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