high-altar of the Church of S. Salvadore an altar-piece in
which is a Christ Transfigured on Mount Tabor, and for another altar
in the same church a Madonna receiving the Annunciation from the
Angel. But these last works, although there is something of the good
to be seen in them, are not much esteemed by him, and have not the
perfection that his other pictures have. And since the works of
Tiziano are without number, and particularly the portraits, it is
almost impossible to make mention of them all; wherefore I shall speak
only of the most remarkable, but without order of time, it being of
little import to know which was first and which later. Several times,
as has been related, he painted the portrait of Charles V, and in the
end he was summoned for that purpose to the Court, where he portrayed
him as he was in those his later years; and the work of Tiziano so
pleased that all-conquering Emperor, that after he had once seen it he
would not be portrayed by other painters. Each time that he painted
him, he received a thousand crowns of gold as a present, and he was
made by his Majesty a Chevalier, with a revenue of two hundred crowns
on the Chamber of Naples. In like manner, when he portrayed Philip,
King of Spain, the son of Charles, he received from him a fixed
allowance of two hundred crowns more; insomuch that, adding those four
hundred to the three hundred that he has on the Fondaco de' Tedeschi
from the Signori of Venice, he has without exerting himself a fixed
income of seven hundred crowns every year. Of the same Charles V and
King Philip Tiziano sent portraits to the Lord Duke Cosimo, who has
them in his guardaroba. He portrayed Ferdinand, King of the Romans,
who afterwards became Emperor, and both his sons, Maximilian, now
Emperor, and his brother. He also portrayed Queen Maria, and, for the
Emperor Charles V, the Duke of Saxony when he was a prisoner. But what
a waste of time is this? There has been scarce a single lord of great
name, or Prince, or great lady, who has not been portrayed by Tiziano,
a painter of truly extraordinary excellence in this field of art. He
painted portraits of King Francis I of France, as has been related,
Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, the Marquis of Pescara, Antonio da
Leva, Massimiano Stampa, Signor Giovan Battista Castaldo, and other
lords without number.

[Illustration: PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA

(_After the painting by =Tiziano=. London: Hertford House_)

_Mansell_]

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