Veneziano, Domenico, ii, 144; his treacherous Death, ii, 144. Venice, Foundation of, iii, 72. Venetian Horses, the famous, Removal of from Paris, iii, 296. Venus Anadyomene, i, 2. Venus of Cnidus, i, 155. Venus de Medici, i, 147. Venus Victrix, i, 147. Venus, Titian's, ii, 8. Vermeyen, John C., and the Emperor Charles V., iii, 206; his singular Dress and long Beard, iii, 207. Vernet, Claude Joseph, ii, 295; his Passion for Art, and his Precocity, ii, 295; his Enthusiasm, ii, 296; his Sketching the Tempest, lashed to the Mast, ii, 297; his Arrival at Rome, ii, 298; his Industry and Poverty, ii, 299; his "Alphabet of Tones," ii, 299; Vernet and the Connoisseur, ii, 301; his Success and Works, ii, 301; Diderot's Eulogy, ii, 303; his Passion for Music, ii, 306; his Opinion of his own Artistic Merits, ii, 307; Characteristic Letter to the Marquis de Marigny, ii, 309; his Prices, ii, 310. Vernet, Charles, ii, 310; his Works, ii, 310; his rebuke to a Minister of State, ii, 311. Vernet, Horace--his Life, Style, and Works, ii, 16-28. Vieira, Francisco--his Love Romance, iii, 195; his Success, iii, 198. Vinci, Lionardo da, i, 266; Precocity of his Genius, i, 266; his first remarkable Picture, i, 267; the extraordinary Versatility of his Talents, i, 268; his Works at Milan, i, 268; his famous Battle of the Standard, i, 270; Vinci and Leo X., i, 271; Vinci and Francis I., i, 271; his Death, i, 272; his Learning, i, 272; his Writings, i, 273; his Sketch Books, i, 275; his Last Supper, i, 276; Copies of his Last Supper, i, 278; his Discrimination, i, 279; his Idea of Perfection in Art, i, 280; Vinci and the Prior, i, 282; his Drawings of the Heads in the Last Supper, i, 284; Francis I. and the Last Supper, i, 284; Authenticated Works of Da Vinci, i, 285. Weenix, John Baptist the Elder, iii, 236; his wonderful Facility of Hand, iii, 236. Weenix, the Younger, iii, 237. Weesop, Anecdote of, i, 310.