The cherubs, however, commercial copies of which are always being made by diligent artists, are a joy.
The Titians that hang in the gallery of my mind are other than this.

A Madonna and Child and a rollicking baby at Vienna: our own "Bacchus and Ariadne"; the Louvre "Man with a Glove": these are among them; but the "Assumption" is not there.
Tintoretto's great picture of the "Miracle of S.Mark" was painted between 1544 and 1548, before he was thirty.

The story tells that a pious slave, forbidden by his master to visit and venerate the house of S.Mark, disobeyed the command and went.

As a punishment his master ordered him to be blinded and maimed; but the hands of the executioners were miraculously stayed and their weapons refused to act.

The master, looking on, was naturally at once converted.
Tintoretto painted his picture of this incident for the Scuola of S.
Mark (now a hospital); but when it was delivered, the novelty of its dramatic vigour--a palpitating actuality almost of the cinema--was too much for the authorities.