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 . mple in Raphaelscartoon of Peter and John curing the lame man, Ve-nezia sits enthroned. She is robed in ermine and bluesilk, gold embroidered, and above her fair-haired head awinged figure, poised in air, suspends a crown, while an-other, higher up upon a cloud, blows through a at the foot of the throne, and resting uponclouds, are five female figures, symbolizing, from ther
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 . mple in Raphaelscartoon of Peter and John curing the lame man, Ve-nezia sits enthroned. She is robed in ermine and bluesilk, gold embroidered, and above her fair-haired head awinged figure, poised in air, suspends a crown, while an-other, higher up upon a cloud, blows through a at the foot of the throne, and resting uponclouds, are five female figures, symbolizing, from theright. Justice, Agriculture, Peace, Commerce, and Vic-tory, and beside the last sits the male figure of a soldier,holding a branch of laurel. From a balcony beneaththem men and women in beautiful attire look up withfaces of radiant happiness and devotion, while down be-low, two horsemen appear among a crowd of persons. This picture, writes the artist E. H. Blashfield, isso rich and so silvery in its color —the latter appearingin the architectural parts— that it may be called mag-nificent in its technic as in its motive. As a subject, it isexactly what Veronese loved best to treat, and among [164]. THE GLORY OF VENICE PAOLO VERONESE HALL OF THE GREAT COUNCIL, DUCAL PALACE, VENICE
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