[c] The Louvre.
[d] Baptism of Christ, Perugia; and The Crucifixion, Florence.
[e] The Deposition, Pitti Palace.
[f] Madonna and Child in a Rose Garden, Munich.
[g] The Crucifixion, Florence Academy.
[h] Diana sleeps in the Forest, Prado, Madrid.
[NOTE 62. PAGE 194]
In noting the fact that the great landscape artist invents his designs, Byron observes that nature does not furnish him with the scenes that he requires, and adds[a]:
Nature is not lavish of her beauties; they are widely scattered, and occasionally displayed, to be selected with care, and gathered with difficulty.
Had Byron been a painter, he would have known that the trouble of the artist is due to the over, and not the under, supply of beauty by nature. The artist sees the beauty, but cannot identify it with particular signs, and so has to invent a scene himself, using nature only for sketches or ideas.