The excellence of the old masters' drawings is a perpetual revelation. Even second-class men are almost invariably fine draughtsmen, proving that drawing was looked upon as something over which it was necessary for even the meanest to have entire mastery. Tiepolo's drawings, preserved in Venice and in various museums, are as beautiful as can be wished; perfect in execution and vivid in feeling. In Venice are twenty or thirty sheets in red carbon, of flights of angels, and of draperies studied in every variety of fold. Poor work of his school is often ascribed to his sons, but the superb "Stations of the Cross," in the Frari, which were etched by Domenico, and published as his own in his lifetime, are almost equal to the father's work. Tiepolo had many immediate followers and imitators. The colossal roof-painting of Fabio Canal in the Church of SS. Apostoli, Venice, may be pointed out as an example of one of these. But he is full of the tendencies of modern art. Mr. Berenson, writing of him, says he sometimes seems more the first than the last of a line, and notices how he influenced many French artists of recent times, though none seem quite to have caught the secret of his light intensity and his exquisite caprice. PRINCIPAL WORKS Aranjuez. Royal Palace: Frescoes; Altarpiece. Orangery: Frescoes. Bergamo. Cappella Colleoni: Scenes from the Life of the Baptist. Berlin. Martyrdom of S. Agatha; S. Dominia and the Rosary. London. Sketches; Deposition. Madrid. Escurial; Ceilings. Milan. Palazzi Clerici, Archinto, and Dugnano: Frescoes. Brera: Loves of Rinaldo and Armida. Paris. Christ at Emmaus. Strà. Villa Pisani: Ceiling. Venice. Academy: S. Joseph, the Child, and Saints; S. Helena finding the Cross. Palazzo Ducale: Sala di Quattro Porte: Neptune and Venice. Palazzo Labia: Frescoes; Antony and Cleopatra. Palazzo Rezzonico: Two Ceilings. S. Alvise: Flagellation; Way to Golgotha. SS. Apostoli: Communion of S. Lucy. S. Fava: The Virgin and her Parents. Gesuati: Ceiling; Altarpiece. S. Maria della Pietà: Triumph of Faith. S. Paolo: Stations of the Cross. Scalzi: Transportation of the Holy House of Loretto. Scuola del Carmine: Ceiling. Verona. Palazzo Canossa: Triumph of Hercules. Vicenza. Museo Entrance Hall: Immaculate Conception. Villa Valmarana: Frescoes; Subjects from Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, and Tasso; Masks and Oriental Scenes. Würzburg. Palace of the Archbishop: Ceilings; Fêtes Galantes; Assumption; Fall of Rebel Angels. CHAPTER XXX PIETRO LONGHI