All the more surprising is it that it receives no mention from Vasari, who merely states that the master worked at Castelfranco.

[15]

I unhesitatingly adopt the titles recently given to these pictures by Herr Franz Wickhoff (Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, Heft. i. 1895), who has at last succeeded in satisfactorily explaining what has puzzled all the writers since the days of the Anonimo.

[16]

Statius: Theb. iv. 730 ff. See p. 135.

[17]

Aen. viii. 306-348.