picture had been done just after a walk among hills, for it is full of
the most delicate effects of transparent cloud, more or less veiling
the faces and forms of the angels, and covering with white light the
silvery sprays of the palms, while the clouds in the "Jacob's Dream"
are the ordinary rotundities of the studio.

27. _Ezekiel's Vision._ I suspect this has been repainted, it is so
heavy and dead in color; a fault, however, observable in many of the
small pictures on the ceiling, and perhaps the natural result of the
fatigue of such a mind as Tintoret's. A painter who threw such intense
energy into some of his works can hardly but have been languid in
others in a degree never experienced by the more tranquil minds of
less powerful workmen; and when this languor overtook him whilst he
was at work on pictures where a certain space had to be covered by
mere force of arm, this heaviness of color could hardly but have been
the consequence: it shows itself chiefly in reds and other hot hues,
many of the pictures in the Ducal Palace also displaying it in a
painful degree. This "Ezekiel's Vision" is, however, in some measure
worthy of the master, in the wild and horrible energy with which the
skeletons are leaping up about the prophet; but it might have been
less horrible and more sublime, no attempt being made to represent the
space of the Valley of Dry Bones, and the whole canvas being occupied
only by eight figures, of which five are half skeletons. It it is
strange that, in such a subject, the prevailing hues should be red and
brown.

28. _Fall of Man._ The two canvases last named are the most
considerable in size upon the roof, after the centre pieces. We now
come to the smaller subjects which surround the "Striking the Rock;"
of these this "Fall of Man" is the best, and I should think it very
fine anywhere but in the Scuola di San Rocco; there is a grand light
on the body of Eve, and the vegetation is remarkably rich, but the
faces are coarse, and the composition uninteresting. I could not get
near enough to see what the grey object is upon which Eve appears to
be sitting, nor could I see any serpent. It is made prominent in the
picture of the Academy of this same subject, so that I suppose it is
hidden in the darkness, together with much detail which it would be
necessary to discover in order to judge the w