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Paul Veronese PAOLO CAGLIARI was born at Verona in 

 1528, and died at Venice in 1588. This always pleasing painter 

 excelled in the representation of grand architecture, gorgeous 

 draperies, varied costumes, and generally in imposing scenes and 

 striking effects. He had a most noble fancy and the utmost fer- 

 tility of invention. Whatever he undertook became a master- 

 piece in its way, and he executed a great number of oil paintings. 

 No collection seemed complete without some of the large and 

 splendid works of this great painter. There is the Adoration of 

 the Kings in the Dresden Gallery, the Feast of the Levite in the 

 Venice Academy, the Marriage at Cana in the Louvre of Paris. 

 This last is perhaps the best and most elaborate of his works. It 

 is a colossal painting 32 by 21 feet, and contains one hundred 

 and twenty figures, many of them portraits of distinguished 

 persons of the time, Queens, Emperors, and Painters. It is a 

 wonderful instance of executive power. But after all it is only 

 a Venetian feast. Instead of the scene being transported to 

 Galilee, Christ is brought down to Venice and the sixteenth 

 century. 



Caracci. ANNIBALE CARACCI, was born in Bologna in 1560, 

 died in Rome in 1609, and was buried in the Pantheon near 

 Raphael. He was the painter of the remarkable mythological 

 frescoes in the Farnese Palace in Rome. He, with his brother 

 Agostino, and uncle Ludovico, formed the celebrated Caracci 

 school, which was the middle link between two great lines of 

 painters. Raphael, Michael Angelo, Titian and Correggio pre- 

 ceded, and were coruscations of genius. What they accomplished 

 for art seemed in no wise dependent on labor. The Caracci, 

 while they were extraordinary men, were nevertheless great only 

 as their predecessors were great. With them all was labor and 

 imitation. But they were the teachers of a new race of painters 

 who were to carry the glory of Italy to its second culminating 

 point. The most distinguished of the pupils was 



Guido Reni (Gwe-do JRd-ne). Born near Bologna in 1575, 

 died at the same place in 1642. He has left about three hundred 

 paintings to testify to his ability and application, and they are 

 scattered through all the galleries of Europe. The Crucifixion 



