[21] In the Venice Academy.
[22] _Archivio, Anno VI_., where reproductions of the two are given side
by side, _fasc_. vi. p. 412.
[23] The Berlin example (by the Pseudo-Basaiti) is reproduced in the
Illustrated Catalogue of the recent exhibition of Renaissance Art at
Berlin; the Rovigo version (under Leonardo's name!) is possibly by
Bissolo.
Two other repetitions exist, one at Stuttgart, the other in the
collection of Sir William Farrer. (Venetian Exhibition, New Gallery,
1894, No. 76.)
[24] Gentile Bellini's three portraits in the National Gallery (Nos.
808, 1213, 1440) illustrate this growing tendency in Venetian art; all
three probably date from the first years of the sixteenth century.
Gentile died in 1507.
[25] Berenson: _Venetian Painters_, 3rd edition.
[26] _Daily Telegraph_, December 29th, 1899.
[27] Even the so-called Pseudo-Basaiti has been separated and
successfully diagnosed.
[28] 1895 Catalogue.
[29] See Appendix, where the letters are printed in full.
[30] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, ii. 142, and note.
[31] Giorgione painted in fresco in the portico of this palace. Zanetti
has preserved the record of a figure said to be "Diligence," in his
print published in 1760.
[32] See Byron's _Life and Letters_, by Thomas Moore, p. 705.
[33] See Berenson's _Venetian Painters_, illustrated edition.
[34] Morelli, ii. 219.
[35] See p. 32 for a possible explanation of these letters.
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