THE ACCADEMIA.

III: GIOVANNI BELLINI AND THE LATER PAINTERS Pietro Longhi--Hogarth--Tiepolo--A gambling wife--Canaletto--Guardi--The Vivarini--Boccaccini--Venetian art and its beginnings--The three Bellinis--Giovanni Bellini--A beautiful room--Titian's "Presentation"-- The busy Evangelists--A lovely ceiling.
A number of small rooms which are mostly negligible now occur.

Longhi is here, with his little society scenes; Tiepolo, with some masterly swaggering designs; Giambettino Cignaroli, whom I mention only because his "Death of Rachel" is on Sundays the most popular picture in the whole gallery; and Canaletto and Guardi, with Venetian canals and palaces and churches.

For Tiepolo at his best the Labia Palace must be visited, and Longhi is more numerously represented at the Museo Civico than here.

Both Canaletto and Guardi can be better studied in London, at the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection.