Tintoret had modelled his colouring upon Titian and was by nature a great colourist, but too often he used bad materials that have turned black with the lapse of years.

In this picture you see his colour as it was meant to be, rich, and boldly harmonious.

The vivid red and blue of the princess's clothes are a daring combination with the brilliant green of the landscape, but Tintoret knew what he was doing, and the result is superb.

With his death in 1594 the best of Venetian painting came to an end.
[Illustration: ST.

GEORGE DESTROYING THE DRAGON From the picture by Tintoretto, in the National Gallery, London] There were as many excellent painters in the fairy city as there had been in Florence; contemporaries of Giovanni Bellini (who, in his early years, worked in close companionship with Mantegna, his brother-in-law), as well as contemporaries of Titian and Tintoret.
The painter Veronese, for instance, died a few years before Tintoret.
For pomp and pageantry his great canvases are eminent.