Mark! S.Mark!" whereupon a branch instantly sprang forth from the masonry below and sustained him until help arrived.

Tintoretto, who has other miracles of S.Mark in the Royal Palace here and in the Brera at Milan, would have drawn that falling workman magnificently.
This room also has two of Tintoretto's simpler canvases--an Adam and Eve (with an error in it, for they are clothed before the apple is eaten) and a Cain and Abel.

The other pictures are altar-pieces of much sweetness, by Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Basaiti and Cima.

The Carpaccio is the best known by reason of the little charming celestial orchestra at the foot of it, with, in the middle, the adorable mandolinist who has been reproduced as a detail to gladden so many thousands of walls.

All have quiet radiance.
High over the door by which we entered is a masterly aristocratic allegory by Paul Veronese--Venice with Hercules and Ceres--notable for the superb drawing and vivacity of the cupid with the wheat sheaf.