The study and criticism of Italian art . 2 J q w VICTOR CARPACCIO. [S. Giorgio dcgli Sckiavoni, VeniictST. TRYPHON TAMING A BASILISKDETAIL GLORY OF ST. URSULA 129 of their lives. For a work done by a Venetian whoseldom, if ever, stirred from Venice, this Glory ofSt. Ursula, and the Saint in particular, are assentimental as any we shall find. I venture to main-tain that it would have taken a long stretch of yearsfor the author of the boyish, gay, heart-free paintingsof the rest of that series to grow into the dangerouslyclose precursor of Guido Reni and his kin that isfound here. There is, as y
The study and criticism of Italian art . 2 J q w VICTOR CARPACCIO. [S. Giorgio dcgli Sckiavoni, VeniictST. TRYPHON TAMING A BASILISKDETAIL GLORY OF ST. URSULA 129 of their lives. For a work done by a Venetian whoseldom, if ever, stirred from Venice, this Glory ofSt. Ursula, and the Saint in particular, are assentimental as any we shall find. I venture to main-tain that it would have taken a long stretch of yearsfor the author of the boyish, gay, heart-free paintingsof the rest of that series to grow into the dangerouslyclose precursor of Guido Reni and his kin that isfound here. There is, as yet, but the faintest touchof it in the canvases at St. Giorgio degli Schiavoni,the execution of which must have dragged on from1502 for nearly ten years. In the latest of them,excepting the Madonna over the altar, the onerepresenting St. Tryphon taming a Basilisk thereis a woman standing near the King with her handsfolded in prayer, but without a touch of sentimental-ity in her face. And, while we are on this subject, let us glance atthe faces of the worshippers
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