933. BOY WITH A BIRD.

_Padovanino_ (Venetian: 1590-1650). _See 70._

Contrast with this child caressing a dove Baroccio's Christ teasing

a bird. Padovanino lived much at Venice, and shared perhaps the

Venetian's fondness for pigeons--the sacred birds of St. Mark's, which

are kept and fed in the great square to this day at the public charge.