[1] See notes on Titian in Vasari's _Lives of the Painters_,
edited by E. H. and E. W. Blashfield and A. A. Hopkins.
[2] Notes on Titian in Vasari's _Lives of the Painters_, by E. H.
and E. W. Blashfield and A. A. Hopkins.
[3] Claude Phillips.
[4] Compiled from the Index to _Titian: His Life and Times_,
by Crowe and Cavalcaselle.
[5] As the various so-called portraits of Vesalius are said to
have little in common upon which to base a resemblance, one is
almost tempted to set up a theory that this portrait may be
that of the great anatomist.
[6] 1 Samuel, chapter i., verses 11, 24-28.
[7] _The Golden Legend_, in Caxton's translation, edited by F. S.
Ellis (Temple Classics, vol. v., pp. 101, 102). The story is
retold in Mrs. Jameson's _Legends of the Madonna_, p. 197.
[8] For instance, Lavinia, Flora, and the Man with the Glove.
[9] See the Acts of the Apostles, chapters vi. and vii.
[10] The lives of St. Jerome and St. George are related in detail
in _The Golden Legend_. See Caxton's translation edited by
F. S. Ellis (Temple Classics), vol. v., pages 199-208, for
St. Jerome, vol. iii., pages 125-134, for St. George. Mrs.
Jameson's _Sacred and Legendary Art_ contains condensed
accounts of the same two saints. See page 280 for St. Jerome
and page 391 for St. George.
[11] See the story as related in Mrs. Jameson's _Sacred and
Legendary Art_, page 433, and in H. E. Scudder's _Book
of Legends_.
[12] Claude Phillips.
[13] Matthew, chapter xxii., verses 34-40.
[14] Others are the Venus of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, and the
Girl in the Fur Cloak in the Belvedere, Vienna.
[15] See page 15.
[16] In the later Venetian art, as in the pictures by Veronese,
we see more elaborate costumes.
[17] See Book VII. in Henry King's translation, from which the
quotations here are drawn. The same story is delightfully
modernized in Hawthorne's _Tanglewood Tales_ and Kingsley's
_Greek Heroes_.
[18] See the volume on _Greek Sculpture_ in the Riverside Art
Series, chap. xiii.
[19] In our reproduction a small portion of the landscape is cut
off at each end.
[20] From _Gareth and Lynette_.
[21] From _Guinevere_.
[22] This analysis of Mary's character is suggested in the
Introduction to Mrs. Jameson's _Legends of the Madonna_,
p. 28.
[23] See the volume on _Murillo_ in the Riverside Art Series,
Chapter I.
[24] See _The Golden Legend_, in Caxton's translation, edited by
F. S. Ellis (Temple Classics), vol. iv., pages 238, 239, 245.
[25] Mrs. Jameson in _Sacred and Legendary Art_, page 74.
[26] See page 57.
[27] This feature of the picture is pointed out by John Van Dyke
in his notes on Closson's engraving of the subject.
[28] It should be remembered that a portion of Elizabeth's reign
(1538-1603) fell within Titian's lifetime.
[29] See _Elements of Drawing_, Lecture III.
[30] Luke, chapter iii., verse 6.
[31] Luke, chapter iii., verses 21, 22.
[32] John, chapter i., verses 29-30.