[172] In the National Gallery. The expression in this picture makes me prefer it to the Woman taken in Adultery. I should have named the Blinding of Sampson in the Schœnborn collection at Vienna, but for the atrocious choice of the painter as to the time and action. [173] A picture in brown and white, after Michael Angelo’s cartoon, exists at Holkham. A drawing was made by Rubens of part of the Battle of the Standard, from which the print published by Edelink was taken. [174] This very beautiful work is in the Belvedere Gallery at Vienna. An excellent copy, by Rottenhamer, is in the King of Bavaria’s collection. [175] At Dresden. When the Russian army was at Dresden, in 1814, this picture was borrowed for an altar-piece for Alexander’s temporary chapel: on removing, the picture was packed up and carried off as lawful plunder, but the curator of the Gallery chose his time and place of remonstrance so well that it was restored. [176] In the church of St Paul’s, without the walls of Rome. [177] Now in Russia. [178] In the Florence Gallery. [179] Both in the Pitti Palace, Florence. [180] In the Pitti Palace. [181] At Dresden. [182] Marco Uggione, a contemporary, made an oil copy, thought very inferior at the time, but it is now the best memorial of the picture: it belongs to the Royal Academy. Some works in fresco, of great merit, by Uggione, are collected in the Brera at Milan. [183] Of the innumerable “Last Suppers” painted after this, none reached this sublimity of expression. Gravity and dignity are the highest characteristics of the best, such as that of Andrea del Sarto. Many degenerated into the pure picturesque: and once in the hands of Tintoret, the subject became almost absurd. [184] At Schleissheim. [185] The picture was rolled up as it had come from Paris. The description is from the preface to the third book of the Lives of the Painters, where in many of the later editions the picture has been given to Palma. [186] Particularly those in the Scuola di San Marco. [187] Painted for the Carità, now in the Gallery of the Fine Arts, Venice. [188] Gallery at Venice. [189] Several of these are at Hampton Court, others at Munich. [190] At Dulwich. [191] In the Bridgewater collection. [192] At Florence. [193] Borghese palace, Rome. [194] Vienna, and in Spain. [195] Grimani palace, Venice. [196] Doria palace, Rome. [197] Doria palace, Rome. This pope was of the Panfili Doria family. [198] Often repeated. [199] Belonging to His Grace of Northumberland, who allows nobody to see it. The copy by Gainsborough is fine; and is in more liberal hands. [200] Pisani palace, Venice. [201] In France. [202] In the possession of Earl Spencer. [203] In the Louvre. [204] In the collection of Camuccini, at Rome. [205] In the National Gallery. [206] In the possession of the Marquis of Westminster. [207] In the possession of the Duke of Devonshire. [208] In the possession of Mr. Wells of Redleaf.