NOTES:
[75] A list of these is given at p. 138.
[76] _Vide_ List of Works, pp. 124-137.
[77] The results of these archivistic researches are being published in
the _Repertorium fuer Kunstwissenschaft_.
[78] For the evidence, see _Magazine of Art_, April 1893.
[79] Meravig, i. 126.
[80] Vasari saw Giorgione's portrait of the succeeding Doge Leonardo
Loredano (1501-1521).
[81] See Crowe and Cavalcaselle, ii. 141.
[82] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, _ibid_.
[83] ii. 213. We now know that he died in 1510.
[84] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, ii. 119. Bode: _Cicerone_.
CHAPTER IV
ADDITIONAL PICTURES--PORTRAITS
Vasari, in his _Life of Titian_, in the course of a somewhat confused
account of the artist's earliest years, tells us how Titian, "having
seen the manner of Giorgione, early resolved to abandon that of Gian
Bellino, although well grounded therein. He now, therefore, devoted
himself to this purpose, and in a short time so closely imitated
Giorgione that his pictures were sometimes taken for those of that
master, as will be related below." And he goes on: "At the time when
Titian began to adopt the manner of Giorgione, being then not more than
eighteen, he took the portrait of a gentleman of the Barberigo family
who was his friend, and this was considered very beautiful, the
colouring being true and natural, and the hair so distinctly painted
that each one could be counted, as might also the stitches[85] in a
satin doublet, painted in the same work; in a word, it was so well and
carefully done, that it would have been taken for a picture by
Giorgione, if Titian had not written his name on the dark ground.
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