_Padovanino_ (Venetian: 1590-1650).
Alessandro Varotari was born at Padua, from which town he
derived the name by which he is generally known. He was the
son of a Veronese painter, but went early to Venice, where
he became a student and imitator of the works of Titian and
Paolo Veronese. His masterpiece is the "Marriage at Cana" in
the Academy at Venice. He painted children well, and often
introduced them into his pictures.
Cornelia, a noble Roman lady, daughter of the elder Scipio Africanus,
and mother of the Gracchi, was visited by a friend, who ostentatiously
exhibited her jewels. Cornelia being asked to show hers in turn,
pointed to her two sons, just then returning from school, and said,
"These are my jewels."