To 1538 belongs the large and beautiful picture of the _Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple_, painted for the Scuola della Carita in Venice, which is now occupied by the Academy, where it still hangs, as is said, in its original place. It is twenty-two feet in length, and contains several portraits, among which are those of his daughter Lavinia (the Virgin, as is supposed), Andrea Franchescini, grand chancellor of Venice, in a scarlet robe; next him, in black, Lazzaro Crasso, a lawyer, and certain monks of the convent following them. We now find Titian employed by the Duke of Urbino on some of the principal works of this period. Among these were the Uffizi _Venus_, said to be a portrait of the Duchess herself. The _Girl in a Fur Mantle_ at Vienna, portraits of the Duke and of the Duchess (1537), and the so-called _La Bella_ at the Uffizi. The so-called _Duke of Norfolk_ at the Pitti, supposed to represent the young Duke Guidobaldo of Urbino. Also the _Isabella d'Este_ at Vienna, and somewhat earlier, the _Cardinal Ippolito_ in Hungarian dress, at the Pitti; and the _Daughter of Robert Strozzi_, at Berlin. The large _Ecce Homo_ in the Vienna Gallery, dated 1543, measuring 11 ft. 3 in. by 7 ft. 7 in. was for some years in London, and with better fortune might still be in this country if not in our national collection. It was one of the nineteen pictures by Titian in the wonderful collection of Rubens, which the Duke of Buckingham persuaded him to sell to him for a fabulous price. The collection was shipped to England in 1625, when the pictures were taken to York House in the Strand, and the statues and gems to Chelsea. In 1649 a portion of the collection was sold at Brussels, and the _Ecce Homo_ was purchased there by the Archduke Leopold for his gallery at Prague, which now forms part of that at Vienna. The Earl of Arundel offered the Duke of Buckingham L7000 for it--an unheard of price, especially when we remember the greater value of money at that time.