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Footnote 1:Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 2:Giorgio Vasari, a contemporary of Titian, and himself a painter of no mean rank, wrote a series of lives of the Italian artists, from which the following is extracted. There are several slight inaccuracies in his work Titian was born, not in 1480, but in 1477, and died in 1576. He was in coloring the greatest artist who ever lived.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 3:Copyright, 1894, by Helmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 4:Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 5:Reprinted by permission, from the Magazine of American History.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 6:Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 7:Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 8:Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 9:Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 10:Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 11:Reprinted by permission, from the "Nation."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 12:Our illustration represents him at Wahnfried in company with his wife Cosima, her father Franz Liszt, who was his lifelong friend, and Herr von Wolzogen.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 13:Reprinted by permission of The Cassell Publishing Company, from "Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 14:Of Forrest's performance of Metamora, in the play of that name, W. R. Alger says, "Never did an actor more thoroughly identify and merge himself with his part than Forrest did in 'Metamora.' He was completely transformed from what he appeared in other characters, and seemed Indian in every particular, all through and all over, from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 15:Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 16:Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.[Back to Main Text]