a little to blue, and a single piece of dirty brick-red in St.
Jerome's dress; and yet Tintoret's greatness hardly ever shows more
than in the management of such sober tints. I would rather have these
two small brown pictures, and two others in the Academy perfectly
brown also in their general tone--the "Cain and Abel" and the "Adam
and Eve,"--than all the other small pictures in Venice put together,
which he painted in bright colors, for altar pieces; but I never saw
two pictures which so nearly approached grisailles as these, and yet
were delicious pieces of color. I do not know if I am right in calling
one of the saints St. Andrew. He stands holding a great upright wooden
cross against the sky. St. Jerome reclines at his feet, against a
rock, over which some glorious fig leaves and olive branches are
shooting; every line of them studied with the most exquisite care, and
yet cast with perfect freedom.

10. _Bacchus and Ariadne._ The most beautiful of the four careful
pictures by Tintoret, which occupy the angles of the Anti-Collegio.
Once one of the noblest pictures in the world, but now miserably
faded, the sun being allowed to fall on it all day long. The design of
the forms of the leafage round the head of the Bacchus, and the
floating grace of the female figure above, will, however, always give
interest to this picture, unless it be repainted.

The other three Tintorets in this room are careful and fine, but far
inferior to the "Bacchus;" and the "Vulcan and the Cyclops" is a
singularly meagre and vulgar study of common models.

11. _Europa_, by Paul Veronese: in the same room. One of the very few
pictures which both possess and deserve a high reputation.

12. _Venice enthroned_, by Paul Veronese; on the roof of the same
room. One of the grandest pieces of frank color in the Ducal Palace.

13. _Venice, and the Doge Sebastian Venier_; at the upper end of the
Sala del Collegio. An unrivalled Paul Veronese, far finer even than
the "Europa."

14. _Marriage of St. Catherine_, by Tintoret; in the same room. An
inferior picture, but the figure of St. Catherine is quite exquisite.
Note how her veil falls over her form, showing the sky through it, as
an alpine cascade falls over a marble rock.

There are three other Tintorets on the walls of this room, but all
inferior, though full of power. Note especially th