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Great as
was his fame in those days,--and the Veronese never lived beyond his
fame,--still, as in his earlier years, he was eager for any new method
of proving the genius in which his own faith was as unbounded as his
capacity to achieve was vigorous and tireless. And the young noble's
unique fancy for a superb goblet of crystal _da Beroviero_, with a
miniature of Marina of Murano enlaced in exquisite gold borders and set
round with costly pearls--a trifle fit to offer to a princess--not only
pleased the artist's well-known taste for luxury, but seemed to him an
object worthy of his skill. In the kindness of his heart he would make
the lovely face so winning that the great lady should yield to the
prayer that had prompted the gift.
Among all the elaborate gift-pieces that had come from the workshops of
Murano, but one had as yet approached this, and it had been sent with
the homage of the Senate, by a retiring ambassador of "His Most
Christian Majesty," to the Queen of France, and it bore, from Titian's
hand, the portrait of her royal husband.


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