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The other Venetian room is almost wholly devoted to portraits, chief among them being a red-headed Tintoretto burning furiously, No. 613, and Titian's sly and sinister Caterina Cornaro in her gorgeous dress, No. 648; Piombo's "L'Uomo Ammalato"; Tintoretto's Jacopo Sansovino, the sculptor, the grave old man holding his calipers who made that wonderful Greek Bacchus at the Bargello; Schiavone's ripe, bearded "Ignoto," No. 649, and, perhaps above all, the Moroni, No. 386, black against grey.
They were offering up their class as a sacrifice to the new God, Deo ignoto: the people. To tell the truth, they were not all equally sincere. Many of them were only able to see in the movement an opportunity of rising above their class by affecting to despise it. For the majority it was an intellectual pastime, an oratorical enthusiasm which they never took altogether seriously.
And this is all from your true but nameless friend, IGNOTO." Lord Glenvarloch paused for an instant, and crushed the paper together then again unfolded and read it with attention bent his brows mused for a moment, and then tearing it to fragments, exclaimed "Begone for a vile calumny! But I will watch I will observe "
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