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| Epoch I. | The old masters | 1 |
| Epoch II. | Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Jacopo da Bassano, PaoloVeronese. | 91 |
| Epoch III. | Innovations of the mannerists of the seventeenth century.Corruption of Venetian painting | 254 |
| Epoch IV. | Of exotic and new styles in Venice | 347 |
This School would have required no farther illustrationfrom any other pen, had Signor Antonio Zanetti, in his highly esteemedwork upon Venetian Painting, included a more ample consideration of theartists of the state, instead of confining his attention wholly tothose, whose productions, ornamenting the churches and other publicplaces, had all been completed in the city of Venice alone. He has,nevertheless, rendered distinguished service to any one ambitious ofsucceeding him, and of extending the same subject beyond these narrowerlimits; since he has observed the most lucid order in the arrangement ofepochs, in the description of styles, in estimating the merits ofvarious painters, and thus ascertaining the particular rank as well asthe age belonging to each. Those artists then, whom he has omitted tocommemorate, may be easily reduced under one or other of the divisions[Pg2]pointed out by him, and the whole history enlarged upon theplan which he first laid down.
In cultivating an acquaintance with these additional names, thememorials collected by Vasari; afterwards, on a more extensive scale, bythe Cavaliere Ridolfi, in his Lives of the Venetian Painters; and byBoschini, in the Miniere della Pittura, in the Carta delNavegar Pittoresco, and in other works: materials drawn from allparts of the Venetian state—will be of signal advantage to us. Noone, it is hoped,