Vega, Lope de, decline of interest in masterpieces of, 10; marvellous industry of, 323; relations of, with Cervantes, 324; daughter of, 325, 326.
Velazquez, paintings by, in Madrid gallery, 156, 157, 160, 169-173; character of, 174, 175; kindness of, to Murillo, 176; painting by, in Escorial, 263.
Venus, two pictures of, by Titian, at Madrid, 180.
Veronese, paintings by, at Madrid, 182.
Vervain, former hunting of, 127.
Vesalius, persecution of, 53.
Vienna, natural capital of Austria, 3.
Villalba, 192.
Vinci, Leonardo da. See Leonardo.
Virgen del Pez, La, Raphael's, 177.