Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 12626-h.htm or 12626-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/6/2/12626/12626-h/12626-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/6/2/12626/12626-h.zip) THE EARLIER WORK OF TITIAN By CLAUDE PHILLIPS Keeper of the Wallace Collection 1897 [Illustration: _Flora_] [Illustration: The Portfolio Artistic Monographs With many Illustrations] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES PAGE Flora. Uffizi Gallery, Florence ....................... Frontispiece Sacred and Profane Love. Borghese Gallery, Rome..................... 36 Virgin and Child, with Saints. Louvre............................... 54 Le Jeune Homme au Gant. Louvre...................................... 62 ILLUSTRATIONS PRINTED IN COLOUR Design for a Holy Family. Chatsworth................................ 86 Sketch for the Madonna di Casa Pesaro. Albertina.................... 96 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT The Man of Sorrows. In the Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice............... 23 Virgin and Child, known as "La Zingarella." Imperial Gallery, Vienna 25 The Baptism of Christ. Gallery of the Capitol, Rome................. 29 The Three Ages. Bridgewater Gallery ................................ 35 Herodias with the Head of John the Baptist. Doria Gallery, Rome..... 39 Vanitas. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.................................... 41 St. Anthony of Padua causing a new-born Infant to speak. Fresco in the Scuola del Santo, Padua............................................. 43 "Noli me tangere." National Gallery................................. 45 St. Mark enthroned, with four Saints. S. Maria della Salute, Venice. 49 The Madonna with the Cherries. Imperial Gallery, Vienna............. 51 PAGE Madonna and Child, with St. John and St. Anthony Abbot. Uffizi Gallery, Florence......................................................... 53 St. Eustace (or St. Hubert) with the Miracle of the Stag. British Museum ............................................................ 55 The "Cristo della Moneta." Dresden Gallery......................... 57 Madonna and Child, with four Saints. Dresden Gallery............... 59 A Concert. Probably by Titian. Pitti Palace, Florence.............. 63 Portrait of a Man. Alte Pinakothek, Munich......................... 65 Alessandro de' Medici (so called). Hampton Court................... 67 The Worship of Venus. Prado Gallery, Madrid........................ 71 The Assunta. Accademia delle Belle Arti, Venice.................... 75 The Annunciation. Cathedral at Treviso............................. 79 Bacchus and Ariadne. National Gallery.............................. 81 St. Sebastian. Wing of altar-piece in the Church of SS. Nazzaro e Celso, Brescia............................................................. 85