ANIMAL LIFE IN ITALIAN PAINTING 



relation to the completed sacrifice of the Redeemer. In 

 the Madonna Enthroned (Vicenza, Duomo), amongst 

 other birds are two swallows, one on the bar of the 

 baldacchino and another on the capital of one of the 

 supporting pillars. 



The Infant Christ in Sir William Farrer's Madonna 

 and Child presses a goldfinch to His breast. The 

 helpless and uncomfortable position of the bird is well 

 studied ; it squeaks with open beak and tries to find a 

 hold for its feet. An ape, a stag, a peacock, and a hoo- 

 poe are painted in a St. Jerome (Bergamo, Accademia 

 Carrara). 

 Cimada Giovanni Battista, generally called by his nickname 



c *i4^-i^i8 Cima da Conegliano from the hill-top of his native place 

 which he was so fond of using in the background of his 

 pictures, paints a very miserable lion in the National 

 Gallery St. Jerome. There is also a hawk and a serpent. 

 The middle portion is repeated in a picture of the 

 same subject belonging to Major Kennard, but more life 

 is introduced. A kino^fisher sits on a ledo^e of rock over- 

 hanging a pool, while another flies off with a fish in its 

 beak. Two red-legged partridges and a stag are also 

 to be seen. A green lizard, painted with much detail, 

 fights with a snake in the foreground. 



There is always a gathering of wild life round St. 

 Jerome, but this picture is unusually full of it. 



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