. The Venetian School of Painting. he has himself been at home inthe masquerade, has accompanied the lady tothe fortune-teller, and, leaning over her gracefulshoulder, has listened to the soothsayers has attended balls and routs, danced minuets,and gossiped over tiny cups of China tea. Heis the last chronicler of the Venetian feasts,and with him ends that long series that beganwith Giorgiones concert and which developedand passed through suppers at Cana and banquetsat the houses of Levi and the Pharisee. Weare no longer confronted with the sumptuosityof Bonifazio and Veronese ; the
. The Venetian School of Painting. he has himself been at home inthe masquerade, has accompanied the lady tothe fortune-teller, and, leaning over her gracefulshoulder, has listened to the soothsayers has attended balls and routs, danced minuets,and gossiped over tiny cups of China tea. Heis the last chronicler of the Venetian feasts,and with him ends that long series that beganwith Giorgiones concert and which developedand passed through suppers at Cana and banquetsat the houses of Levi and the Pharisee. Weare no longer confronted with the sumptuosityof Bonifazio and Veronese ; the immense tablescovered with gold and silver plate, the longlines of guests robed in splendid brocades, thestream of servants bearing huge salvers, or thebands of musicians, nor are there any morealfresco concerts, with nymphs and there are masques, the life of the Ridottoor gaming-house, routs and intrigues in dainty!boudoirs, and surreptitious love-making in thaticity of eternal carnival where the bauta was 310. Pietro Longhi. VISIT TO THE FORTUNE-TELLER. [Photo, Hanfstdngl.) London. PIETRO LONGHI almost a national costume. Longhi holds thatpost which in French art is filled by Watteau,Fragonard, and Lancret, the painters of fetesgalantes^ and though he cannot be placed onan equal footing with those masters, he isrepresentative and significant enough. On hiscanvases are preserved for us the mysteries ofthe toilet, over which ladies and young menof fashion dawdled through the morning, thedrinking of chocolate in neglige^ the momentousinstants spent in choosing headgear and fixingpatches, the towers of hair built by the modishcoiffeur—children trooping in, in hoops anduniforms, to kiss their mothers hand, the finegentleman choosing a waistcoat and ogling thepretty embroideress, the pert young maidservantslipping a billet-doux into a beautys hand underher husbands nose, the old beau toying witha fan, or the discreet abbe taking snuif over themorning gazette. T
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