A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools / Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John Ruskin

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Cariani (Bergamese: about 1480-1541). See 1203.

This fine picture, known as La Vierge aux Lauriers from its background of a laurel-bush (and roses), was formerly in the Leuchtenberg Collection at St. Petersburg, where it was ascribed to Giorgione.

2496. VIRGIN AND CHILD.

Beltraffio (Lombard: 1467-1516). See 728.

2497. VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH ST. JOHN.

School of Botticelli (Florentine: 1447-1510). See 1034.

2498. A YOUNG VENETIAN.

Marco Basaiti (Venetian: painted 1500-1521). See 281.

Signed on the parapet. The young Venetians, it will be noticed, wore their hair long, and carried great weights of it at the sides of their faces: compare, e.g., No. 1121 (Catena), 2509 (Vivarini).