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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt:... it appears that the Venetian painters were resolved that Durer should not be allowed to exercise his art among them without contributing to their schools. He says:--"Also, be it known to you, that the painters here are illaffected towards me. They have brought me three times before their rulers, and I must needs give four florins to their schools. Know, also, that I might have gained much money if I had not undertaken to do the German piece. But there is great labour at it, and if I cannot finish it before Whitsunday, I am not to have more than eighty-five ducats for it." In one of his later letters, he says:--" Item, know ye that my picture says it would give a ducat for this, that you could see it, so good and so well coloured is it. I have got great praise therethrough, but little profit. I might well in that time have gained two hundred ducats, and I have gone through great labour, in order that I might come home; and I have also put to silence all the painters, who said that I was good at engraving, but that in painting I knew not how to make use of colours. Now, they all say they have never seen finer colours. Item, the Duke and the Patriarch have also seen my picture." This is the same piece mentioned by Roth as having been painted by Durer during his stay in Venice. It represented the martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, and was taken from a picture in the church of that name there. It was painted for the Church of the Germans at Venice, and was afterwards bought by the Emperor Rodolph II., who placed it in his gallery at Prague. Durer received a hundred and ten Rhenish florins for it. It was carefully packed, and borne on poles by strong men on foot, fram Venice to Prague, where it is still to be seen. It was now...