426 VENETIAN INDEX

heart in them, while these pictures are exhausted fulfilments of an appointed task. Whether they were really amongst the last painted, or whether the painter had fallen ill at some intermediate time, I cannot say; but we shall find him again in his utmost strength in the room which we last enter.

Fourth group. Inner room on the upper floor.

On the Roof.

36 to 39. Children’s Heads.41 to 44. Children.

40. St. Rocco in Heaven.45 to 56. Allegorical Figures.

On the Walls.

57. Figure in Niche.60. Ecce Homo.

58. Figure in Niche.61. Christ Bearing His Cross.

59. Christ before Pilate.62. CRUCIFIXION.

36 to 39. Four Children’s Heads, which it is much to be regretted should be thus lost in filling small vacuities of the ceiling.

40. St. Rocco in Heaven. The central picture of the roof, in the inner room.¹ From the well-known anecdote respecting the production of this picture, whether in all its details true or not, we may at least

¹ [The Refectory. For the story of the painting of this picture, see above, p. 404 n.]

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