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 . THE GLORY OF VENICE PAOLO VERONESE HALL OF THE GREAT COUNCIL, DUCAL PALACE, VENICE. VERONESE-TINTORETTO his works only The Marriage at Cana and The Familyof Darius can rival it. . No picture shows a moremasterly arrangement: a style at once so sumptuous yetelevated, figures whose somewhat exuberant loveliness issaved from vulgarity by an air of pride and energy,magnificent material treated
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 . THE GLORY OF VENICE PAOLO VERONESE HALL OF THE GREAT COUNCIL, DUCAL PALACE, VENICE. VERONESE-TINTORETTO his works only The Marriage at Cana and The Familyof Darius can rival it. . No picture shows a moremasterly arrangement: a style at once so sumptuous yetelevated, figures whose somewhat exuberant loveliness issaved from vulgarity by an air of pride and energy,magnificent material treated with such ease and sin-cerity. We should particularly remark the last words, easeand sincerity. As to the ease of Veronese, I quote fromvarious sources: His facility of execution has neverbeen equaled. Every one of his canvases, repletewith life and movement, is a feast for the eye. Vero-nese was supreme in representing, without huddling orconfusion, numerous figures in a luminous and diffusedatmosphere, while in richness of draperies and transpa-rency of shadows he surpassed all other Venetians orItalians. He is of all painters, without a single ex-ception, the one whose work shows most unity. As to his sincerity, it arose from the fact that he wassimply what he was—a painte
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