"The Violin Player is a youth holding the bow of a violin and a laurel wreath in his hand, and looking at the spectators over his shoulder. The expression of his countenance is sensible and decided, and betokens a character alive to the impressions of sense, yet severe. The execution is excellent,--inscribed with the date 1518."--_Kugler._ 7. St. Mark: _Guercino_. 8. Daughter of Herodias: _Guercino_. 12. Conjugal Love: _Agostino Caracci_. 16. The Gamblers: _Caravaggio_.* "This is a masterpiece of the painter. A sharper is playing at cards with a youth of family and fortune, whom his confederate, while pretending to be looking on, is assisting to cheat. The subject will remind you of the Flemish School, but this painting bears no resemblance to it. Here is no farce, no caricature. Character was never more strongly marked, nor a tale more inimitably told. It is life itself, and you almost forget it is a picture, and expect to see the game go on. The colouring is beyond all praise."--_Eaton's Rome._ 17. Modesty and Vanity: _Leonardo da Vinci_.* "One of Leonardo's most beautiful pictures is in Rome, in the Sciarra Palace--two female half-figures of Modesty and Vanity. The former, with a veil over her head, is a particularly pleasing, noble profile, with a clear, open expression; she beckons to her sister, who stands fronting the spectator, beautifully arrayed, and with a sweet seducing smile. This picture is remarkably powerful in colouring, and wonderfully finished, but unfortunately has become rather dark in the shadows."--_Kugler._ 19. Magdalen: _Guido Reni_. 24. Family Portrait: _Titian_. 25. Portrait: _Bronzino_. 26. St. Sebastian: _Perugino_. 29. Bella Donna: _Titian_.* Sometimes supposed to represent Donna Laura Eustachio, the peasant Duchess of Alphonso I. of Ferrara.