How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . MAN WITH THE GLOVE TITIAN LOUVRE, PARIS. PORTRAIT OF GEORG GYZE HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER BERLIN GALLERY TITIAN-HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER with the great artist Giorgione. From the first, indeed,he enjoyed every privilege that an artist of his time coulddesire. The Doge and Council of Venice recognized hisability; the Dukes of Ferrara and Mantua followed suit;and, as the years went on, kings, popes, and
How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . MAN WITH THE GLOVE TITIAN LOUVRE, PARIS. PORTRAIT OF GEORG GYZE HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER BERLIN GALLERY TITIAN-HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER with the great artist Giorgione. From the first, indeed,he enjoyed every privilege that an artist of his time coulddesire. The Doge and Council of Venice recognized hisability; the Dukes of Ferrara and Mantua followed suit;and, as the years went on, kings, popes, and emperorswere his friends and patrons. In his home at Biri, asuburb of Venice, from which in one direction the snow-clad Alps are visible and in the other the soft luxurianceof the Venetian Lagoon, he maintained a princely house-hold, associating with the greatest and most accom-plished men of Venice, working on until he had reachedwithin a year of a century of life. Even then it wasno ordinary ailment, but the visitation of the plague,that carried him off; and such was the honor in which hewas held, that the law against the burial of the plague-stricken in a church was overruled in his case and he waslaid in the tomb which he had prepared
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