The Venetian School of Painting (1912) (14597359360)

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Title: The Venetian School of Painting

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Phillipps, Evelyn March, d. 1915

Subjects: Painting Painters

Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited

Contributing Library: Boston Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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and the unearthly radiance, in divers, yetmingling streams which fight against the sur^rounding gloom. In the scene in the Scuoladi S. Rocco the betrayal is the dominatingincident, and in San Stefano all is peace, and theSaviour is alone with the faithful disciples. Though several of the large compositionsascribed to Tintoretto in the Ducal Palace arconly partly by him, or entirely by followers andimitators, its halls are still a storehouse of hijgenius. There is much that is fine about th(great state pieces. In the Marriage of StCatherine, the saint, in silken gown anclong transparent veil, is an exquisite figure;Tintoretto bathes all his pageantry in golderlight and air, and yet we feel that these hugeofficial subjects, with the prosaic old Dogeiintroduced in incongruous company, neitheistimulated his imagination nor satisfied his tasteIt is on the smaller canvases that he finds inspira-tion. He never painted anything more lovelymore perfect in design, or *^^^^ gay and tender it 26(

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TINTORETTO dea, than the cycle in the Ante Collegio. Theflowing light and exquisitely graded shadowsipon ivory limbs have a sensuous perfection andL refined, unselfconscious joy such as is felt inlardly any other work, except the painters own Milky Way in the National Gallery. In allhese four pictures the feeling for design, a)ranch of art in which Tintoretto was past master,s fully displayed. In the Bacchus and Ariadne;ll the principal lines, the eyes and gestures,onverge upon the tiny ring which is the symbol)f union between the goddess and her lover,)etween the queenly city and the Adriatic sea.)r take Pallas driving away Mars : see howhe mass into which the figures are gathered onhe left adds strength to the thrust of thegoddesss arm, and what steadiness is given byhat short straight lance of hers, coming inmong all the yielding curves. The whole fourre linked together in meaning : the call toVenice to reign over the seas, her triumphanteace, with Wisdom guiding her council, and h

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