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 . PERUGINO-BELLINI Bellini rather than with the more sensuous and emotionalart of Titian. For this is the distinction between the two great Vene-tians. Bellini worked in a great calm, removed frompassion. Swayed by intellectuality, serene and lofty anda little severe, he stands to the glowing, eager spirits thatfollowed him as Phidias to Scopas and Praxiteles. Inone respect, however, he shows
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 . PERUGINO-BELLINI Bellini rather than with the more sensuous and emotionalart of Titian. For this is the distinction between the two great Vene-tians. Bellini worked in a great calm, removed frompassion. Swayed by intellectuality, serene and lofty anda little severe, he stands to the glowing, eager spirits thatfollowed him as Phidias to Scopas and Praxiteles. Inone respect, however, he shows the influence of his the noble character in the heads of the foursaints. He lived in an age when the portrayal of char-acter was an important aim of art, and was himself agreat portrait-painter—witness his noble portrait ofDoge Leonardo Loredano in the National his long life he saw no fewer than eleven doges,and was state painter during the reigns of four. To return to our picture. These bishops and monkshave the bronzed, sunburned faces that may still be seenamong the boatmen of Venice; the Virgins complexionhas the pure carnation tones of girls reared in a moistatmos
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