much invention that it is possible Tintoret may have
made the sketch for it; but, if executed by him at all, he has done it
merely in the temper in which a sign-painter meets the wishes of an
ambitious landlord. He seems to have been ordered to represent all the
events of the battle at once; and to have felt that, provided he gave
men, arrows, and ships enough, his employers would be perfectly
satisfied. The picture is a vast one, some thirty feet by fifteen.

Various other pictures will be pointed out by the custode, in these
two rooms, as worthy of attention, but they are only historically, not
artistically, interesting. The works of Paul Veronese on the ceiling
have been repainted; and the rest of the pictures on the walls are by
second-rate men. The traveller must, once for all, be warned against
mistaking the works of Domenico Robusti (Domenico Tintoretto), a very
miserable painter, for those of his illustrious father, Jacopo.

3. _The Doge Grimani kneeling before Faith_, by Titian; in the Sala
delle quattro Porte. To be observed with care, as one of the most
striking examples of Titian's want of feeling and coarseness of
conception. (See above, Vol. I. p. 12.) As a work of mere art, it is,
however, of great value. The traveller who has been accustomed to
deride Turner's indistinctness of touch, ought to examine carefully
the mode of painting the Venice in the distance at the bottom of this
picture.

4. _Frescoes on the Roof of the Sala delle quattro Porte_, by
Tintoret. Once magnificent beyond description, now mere wrecks (the
plaster crumbling away in large flakes), but yet deserving of the most
earnest study.

5. _Christ taken down from the Cross_, by Tintoret; at the upper end
of the Sala dei Pregadi. One of the most interesting mythic pictures
of Venice, two doges being represented beside the body of Christ, and
a most noble painting; executed, however, for distant effect, and seen
best from the end of the room.

6. _Venice, Queen of the Sea_, by Tintoret. Central compartment of the
ceiling, in the Sala dei Pregadi. Notable for the sweep of its vast
green surges, and for the daring character of its entire conception,
though it is wild and careless, and in many respects unworthy of the
master. Note the way in which he has used the fantastic forms of the
sea weeds, with respect to what was above state