. A history of painting in north Italy; Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Millan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century . ckyhill shoots out of the valley, and is capped with the towersof a castle ^—an exact view of Cadore, as seen fromthe point of Previs. The distance and episodes arecounterparts of those which Titian painted in his smil-ing days, tinted with the richness of his Bacchus andAriadne, glowing with the warmth of the bacchanalsof Madrid. Yet so easy is the passage from Bellinisart to his, that the transition creates no contrast. Thetone throughout is
. A history of painting in north Italy; Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Millan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century . ckyhill shoots out of the valley, and is capped with the towersof a castle ^—an exact view of Cadore, as seen fromthe point of Previs. The distance and episodes arecounterparts of those which Titian painted in his smil-ing days, tinted with the richness of his Bacchus andAriadne, glowing with the warmth of the bacchanalsof Madrid. Yet so easy is the passage from Bellinisart to his, that the transition creates no contrast. Thetone throughout is harmonized, and the art of the fifteenthand sixteenth centuries meets and mingles in perfectfellowship. It happened, therefore, to Bellini, that hesigned this picture in 1514, after sketching it, andthat when Titian was asked by the Duke of Ferrara tocomplete the series, he had to finish Bellinis work beforehe began his own.^ Yet Bellini lived for some time 1 Alnwick Castle. The historyof this picture, now in AlnwickCastle, is in Vasari. XI. 235 and XIII. 23. It was in the Ludovisiand Aldobrandini collections inRome, before it came to England,. Chap. VIII. GIOVANNI BELLINI. 193 longer. In 1515 he painted the so-called Venus of theBelvedere, a fine and well-selected type of ordinary femalebeauty, and so he ended Avith a startling contrast to theearly severity of his boyish years.^ His death occurredon the 29^> of November, 1516,^ and he was buried in thechurch of San Giovanni e Paolo by the side of his brother(jentile.^ and is a fine canvas 6 feet high;signed on a scrip fast to a winebutt in the left hand foreground:Joannes Bellinus Venetus pinxitMDXIIII. There are retouchesin many pLaces, chiefly in shadowwhere they affect the general effectvery little. ^ Vienna, Belvedere. Room 43, wood, 2f. 2 by 2*4V., long,figure seen to the knees, seatedon a cushion covered with a Turk-ish carpet in a room with a darkground (restored), on the window-,sill, left, a vase; through
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