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 414 Painting The Madrid Museum contains forty fine easel pictures by Titian, the Vienna Gallery thirty-four authentic works, and the Louvre eighteen, but he is best studied in the churches and galleries of Venice. Of his cotemporaries, and we may also say his rivals in the early part of his career, we must name Jacopo Palma, surnamed il V t ecchio (old) (1480 — 1528), whose masterpiece is S. Barbara, in the church of S. Maria Formosa, Venice ; Paris Bordone (1500 — 1571), — as much a follower of Giorgione as of Titian, — whose most celebrated work is his Fisherman presenting the ring of S. Mark to the Doge, in the Academy of Venice. The National Gallery pos- sesses a beautiful Portrait of a Lady by him. A very important work by him was the decoration, with scenes from the Life of Christ, of the dome of S. Vicenzo at Treviso. Giovanni Antonio Licinio (1483 — 1539), commonly called Pordenone, one of the most distinguished masters of the Venetian School, who rivalled even Titian in his flesh - tints, and whose works are rarely met with out of Italy ; he is represented in the National Gallery by an Apostle ; Alessandro Bonvicino (1498 — ab. 1555), commonly called II Moretto da Brescia, who left many fine altar-pieces to his native city, and several good easel pictures, three of which, two Portraits of Noblemen and a group of S. Bernardino of Siena and other Saints, are in the National Gallery. Giovanni Battista Moroni (ab. 1510 — 1578), who was a pupil of Bonvicino, painted a few historic subjects, but his chief title to fame lies in his portraits, which yield