Chapter 12 THE FINE ARTS AT VENICE

Masons-Painters-Glass-workers-Printers

Some prefer the pure design:

Give me my gorge of colour, glut of gold

In a glory round the Virgin made for me!

Titian's the man, not monk Angelico

Who traces you some timid chalky ghost

That turns the church into a charnel.

-Browning.

OWING to the absorption of her energies in commerce