tinguishes them from the
vapor out of which they are formed, ghosts of countenances and filmy
wings filling up the intervals between the completed heads. The idea
is highly characteristic of the master. The picture has been
grievously injured, but still shows miracles of skill in the
expression of candle-light mixed with twilight; variously reflected
rays, and half tones of the dimly lighted chamber, mingled with the
beams of the lantern and those from the head of Christ, flashing along
the metal and glass upon the table, and under it along the floor, and
dying away into the recesses of the room.

3. _Martyrdom of various Saints._ (Altar piece of the third altar in
the South aisle.) A moderately sized picture, and now a very
disagreeable one, owing to the violent red into which the color that
formed the glory of the angel at the top is changed. It has been
hastily painted, and only shows the artist's power in the energy of
the figure of an executioner drawing a bow, and in the magnificent
ease with which the other figures are thrown together in all manner of
wild groups and defiances of probability. Stones and arrows are flying
about in the air at random.

4. _Coronation of the Virgin._ (Fourth altar in the same aisle.)
Painted more for the sake of the portraits at the bottom, than of the
Virgin at the top. A good picture, but somewhat tame for Tintoret, and
much injured. The principal figure, in black, is still, however, very
fine.

5. _Resurrection of Christ._ (At the end of the north aisle, in the
chapel beside the choir.) Another picture painted chiefly for the sake
of the included portraits, and remarkably cold in general conception;
its color has, however, been gay and delicate, lilac, yellow, and blue
being largely used in it. The flag which our Saviour bears in his
hand, has been once as bright as the sail of a Venetian fishing-boat,
but the colors are now all chilled, and the picture is rather crude
than brilliant; a mere wreck of what it was, and all covered with
droppings of wax at the bottom.

6. _Martyrdom of St. Stephen._ (Altar piece in the north transept.)
The Saint is in a rich prelate's dress, looking as if he had just been
saying mass, kneeling in the foreground, and perfectly serene. The
stones are flying about him like hail, and the ground is covered with
them as thickly as if it were a