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In Venice. 365 Martyr in 1867. Another extremely fine work is a picture in S. Salvatore, Christ at Emmaus. The National Gallery contains several fine specimens of Bellini's style : a bust portrait of the Doge Leonardo Loredano, a Madonna and Child, a S. Peter Martyr, and Christ's Agony in the Garden. Gentile Bellini's (ab. 1427 — 1507) works are of inferior importance to his younger brother Giovanni's; they are characterised by greater softness and less individuality of style. The best are S. Mark preaching at Alexandria, now in the Brera at Milan ; and a Miracle of the Cross, in the Academy of Venice. The brothers worked together for some time in the Council Hall of the Ducal Palace of Venice, at a series of pictures illustrative of the Venetian wars in 1177, which were unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1577. They were replaced by works by the great painters of Venice of a later period. Giovanni had many celebrated scholars, of whom Gior- gione and Titian, to be presently noticed, were the chief. We must also name Cima da Conegliano, Girolamo Mocetto, Martino da Udine, Vittore Carpaccio, Lazzaro Bastiani, Giovanni Mansueti, Marco Marziale, Catena, Previtali, Bissolo, and Marco Basaiti, — all Venetian artists who were influenced by the Paduan school, and combined something of its severity of form, with Venetian softness of colouring. Many of these artists may be studied in the National Gallery. (d) Other Schools of Upper Italy. Before touching on the Umbrian school we must notice several towns which, beside Venice, played a part in the history of painting at this time. Bartolommeo Montagna