the Paradise into
which we gaze seems to reveal to our eyes the very place where we
ourselves shall stand one day.

At the time when Tintoretto was painting his 'Paradiso,' his little
daughter Marietta had grown to be a woman, and her painting too had
become famous. She was invited to the courts of Germany and Spain to
paint the portraits of the King and Emperor, but she refused to leave
Venice and her beloved father. Even when she married Mario, the
jeweller, she did not go far from home, and Tintoretto grew every year
fonder and prouder of his clever and beautiful daughter. Not only could
she paint, but she played and sang most wonderfully, and became a great
favourite among the music-loving Venetians.

But this happiness soon came to an end, for Marietta died suddenly in
the midst of her happy life.

Nothing could comfort Tintoretto for the loss of his daughter. She was
buried in the church of Santa Maria dell' Orto, and there he ordered
another place to be prepared that he might be buried at her side. It
seemed, indeed, as if he could not live without her, for it was not
long before he passed away. The last great stormy picture of 'the
furious painter' was finished, and all Venice mourned as they laid him
to rest beside the daughter he had loved so well.

PAUL VERONESE

It was in the city of Verona that Paul Cagliari, the last of the great
painters of the Venetian school, was born. The name of that old city of
the Veneto makes us think at once of moonlight nights and fair Juliet
gazing from her balcony as she bids farewell to her dear Romeo. For it
was here that the two lovers lived their short lives which ended so
sadly.

But Verona has other titles to fame besides being the scene of
Shakespeare's story, and one of her proudest boasts is that she gave
her name to the great Venetian artist Paolo Veronese, or Paul of
Verona, as we would say in English.

There were many artists in Verona when Paolo was a boy. His own father
was a sculptor and his uncle a famous painter, so the child was
encouraged to begin work early. As soon as he showed that he had a
talent for painting, he was sent to his uncle's studio to be taught his
first lessons in drawing.

Verona was not very far off from Venice, and Paolo was never tired of
listening to the tales told of that beautiful Queen of the Sea. He
loved to try and picture her magnificence, her marble palaces overlaid
with gold, her richly-dressed nobles, and, above