Venus of Cnidus, i, 155.

Venus de Medici, i, 147.

Venus Victrix, i, 147.

Venus, Titian's, ii, 8.

Vermeyen, John C., and the Emperor Charles V., iii, 206;
his singular Dress and long Beard, iii, 207.

Vernet, Claude Joseph, ii, 295;
his Passion for Art, and his Precocity, ii, 295;
his Enthusiasm, ii, 296;
his Sketching the Tempest, lashed to the Mast, ii, 297;
his Arrival at Rome, ii, 298;
his Industry and Poverty, ii, 299;
his "Alphabet of Tones," ii, 299;
Vernet and the Connoisseur, ii, 301;
his Success and Works, ii, 301;
Diderot's Eulogy, ii, 303;
his Passion for Music, ii, 306;
his Opinion of his own Artistic Merits, ii, 307;
Characteristic Letter to the Marquis de Marigny, ii, 309;
his Prices, ii, 310.

Vernet, Charles, ii, 310;
his Works, ii, 310;
his rebuke to a Minister of State, ii, 311.

Vernet, Horace--his Life, Style, and Works, ii, 16-28.

Vieira, Francisco--his Love Romance, iii, 195;
his Success, iii, 198.

Vinci, Lionardo da, i, 266;
Precocity of his Genius, i, 266;
his first remarkable Picture, i, 267;
the extraordinary Versatility of his Talents, i, 268;
his Works at Milan, i, 268;
his famous Battle of the Standard, i, 270;
Vinci and Leo X., i, 271;
Vinci and Francis I., i, 271;
his Death, i, 272;
his Learning, i, 272;
his Writings, i, 273;
his Sketch Books, i, 275;
his Last Supper, i, 276;
Copies of his Last Supper, i, 278;
his Discrimination, i, 279;
his Idea of Perfection in Art, i, 280;
Vinci and the Prior, i, 282;
his Drawings of the Heads in the Last Supper, i, 284;
Francis I. and the Last Supper, i, 284;
Authenticated Works of Da Vinci, i, 285.

Weenix, John Baptist the Elder, iii, 236;
his wonderful Facility of Hand, iii, 236.

Weenix, the Younger, iii, 237.

Weesop, Anecdote of, i, 310.

West, Benjamin--his Opinion of the Value of the Fine Arts to a
Country, i, 8;
Anecdotes of West, i, 28;
his Ancestry, i, 28;
his Birth, i, 29;
his First Remarkable Feat, i, 30;
his doings with the Indians, i, 30;
his Cat's-Tail's Pencils, i, 30;
his First Picture, i, 31;
his First Visit to Philadelphia, i, 32;
his Ambition, i, 33;
his First Patrons, i, 34;
his Education, i, 35;
his Dedication to Art, i, 36;
his Early Prices, i, 38;