Veronese died comparatively young, of chill and fever, and all his family survived him. He lies buried in San Sebastiano. From contemporary memoirs we know that he lived and dressed splendidly. He kept immense stores of gorgeous stuffs to paint from in his studio, and drew everything from life,--the negroes covered with jewels, the bright-eyed pages, the models who, robed in velvets, brocades and satins, became queens or courtesans or saints. The pearls which bedecked them were from his own caskets. Though we know little of his private life, his work is so alive that he seems personified in it. He is saved from what might have been a prosaic or a sordid style by the delicious, ever-changing colour in which he revels; his silks and satins are less modelled by shadows than tinted by broken reflections, his embroidered and striped and arabesqued tissues are so harmoniously combined that the eye rests, wherever it falls, on something exquisite and subtle in tint. This is where his genius lies, "the decoration does not add to the interest of the drama; it replaces it"; in short, it _is_ the drama itself, for his types show little selection, and his ideal of female beauty is not a very sympathetic one. His personages are cold and devoid of expression, their gestures are rather meaningless, but by means of light and air and exquisite colour he gives the poetical touch which all great art demands. On account of their size few examples of Veronese's work are to be found in private collections, but the galleries of the different European capitals are rich in them. Numbers of paintings, too, which are by his assistants are dignified by his name, and directly after his death spurious works were freely manufactured and sold as genuine. PRINCIPAL WORKS Dresden. Madonna with Cuccina Family; Adoration of Magi; Marriage of Cana. Florence. Pitti: Portrait of Daniele Barbaro. Uffizi: Martyrdom of S. Giustina; Holy Family (E.). London. Consecration of S. Niccolas; The Family of Darius before Alexander; Adoration of the Magi. Maser. Villa Barbaro: Frescoes. Padua. S. Giustina: Martyrdom of S. Giustina. Paris. Christ at Emmaus; Marriage of Cana. Venice. Academy: Battle of Lepanto; Feast in the House of Levi; Madonna with Saints. Ducal Palace: Triumph of Venice; Rape of Europa; Venice enthroned. S. Barnabà: Holy Family. S. Francesco della Vigna: Holy Family. S. Sebastiano: Madonna and Saints; Crucifixion; Madonna in Glory with S. Sebastian and other Saints; others in part; Frescoes; Saints and Figure of Faith; Sibyls. Verona. Portrait of Pasio Guadienti, 1556. S. Giorgio: Martyrdom of S. George. Vicenza. Monte Berico: Feast of St. Gregory, 1572. Vienna. Christ at the House of Jairus. CHAPTER XXV TINTORETTO