Produced by Barbara Tozier, Carol Brown, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE HISTORY OF PAINTING IN ITALY. VOL. III. THE HISTORY OF PAINTING IN ITALY, FROM THE PERIOD OF THE REVIVAL OF THE FINE ARTS, TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: TRANSLATED From the Original Italian OF THE ABATE LUIGI LANZI. BY THOMAS ROSCOE. _IN SIX VOLUMES._ VOL. III. CONTAINING THE SCHOOL OF VENICE. LONDON: PRINTED FOR W. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL, STATIONERS'-HALL COURT, LUDGATE STREET. 1828. J. M'Creery, Tooks Court, Chancery-lane, London. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. HISTORY OF PAINTING IN UPPER ITALY. BOOK THE FIRST. VENETIAN SCHOOL. Page EPOCH I. _The old masters_ 1 EPOCH II. _Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Jacopo da Bassano, Paolo Veronese_ 91 EPOCH III. _Innovations of the mannerists of the seventeenth century. Corruption of Venetian painting_ 254 EPOCH IV. _Of exotic and new styles in Venice_ 347 HISTORY OF PAINTING IN UPPER ITALY. BOOK I. VENETIAN SCHOOL. This School would have required no farther illustration from any other pen, had Signor Antonio Zanetti, in his highly esteemed work upon Venetian Painting, included a more ample consideration of the artists of the state, instead of confining his attention wholly to those, whose productions, ornamenting the churches and other public places, had all been completed in the city of Venice alone. He has, nevertheless, rendered distinguished service to any one ambitious of succeeding him, and of extending the same subject beyond these narrower limits; since he has observed the most lucid order in the arrangement of epochs, in the description of styles, in estimating the merits of various painters, and thus ascertaining the particular rank as well as the age belonging to each. Those artists then, whom he has omitted to commemorate, may be easily reduced under one or other of the divisions pointed out by him, and the whole history enlarged upon the plan which he first laid down.