Note 15:[ (return) ] Imperial Biographical Dictionary.
Note 16:[ (return) ] Titian's age is variously given; some authorities make it ninety-nine years, placing the date of his death in 1570 or 7.
Note 17:[ (return) ] Kugler.
Note 18:[ (return) ] The term originated in the French expression, 'du genre bas.'
Note 19:[ (return) ] He had a peculiar fondness for blue and bronze hues.
Note 20:[ (return) ] It is due to Tintoret to say, that there are modern critics, who look below the surface, and are at this date deeply enamoured of his pictures. Tintoret's name now stands very high in art.
Note 21:[ (return) ] Mrs Jameson.
Note 22:[ (return) ] Guido said of Rubens: 'Does this painter mix blood with his colours?'
Note 23:[ (return) ] Life of Rubens.
Note 24:[ (return) ] If I mistake not, this is the same Countess of Arundel who, in her widowhood, resided in Italy in order to be near her young sons then at Padua. Having provoked the suspicion of the Doge and Council of Venice, she was arrested by them on a charge of treason, and brought before the tribunal, where she successfully pled her own cause, and obtained her release, the only woman who ever braved triumphantly the terrible 'ten.'