. What pictures to see in America. ii - 3 :: a .- 3 = S. o o 3 c3 O aou be o -a 43 43(Uc3 O NEW YORK CITY 71 in 1570. No doubt the picture is to celebrateVenice as a sea power; in the background area number of gayly decked ships representingthe commerce of the world. The men on theright are St. John the Baptist with the lamb,St. Augustine in a yellow cope, St. John theEvangelist with an open book. The floatingfigure of the Savior in light blue is attendedby angels. Tintorettos real name was Jacopo Robusti;his nickname came from the fact that hisfather was a dyer and young Jacopo oftenhelped in
. What pictures to see in America. ii - 3 :: a .- 3 = S. o o 3 c3 O aou be o -a 43 43(Uc3 O NEW YORK CITY 71 in 1570. No doubt the picture is to celebrateVenice as a sea power; in the background area number of gayly decked ships representingthe commerce of the world. The men on theright are St. John the Baptist with the lamb,St. Augustine in a yellow cope, St. John theEvangelist with an open book. The floatingfigure of the Savior in light blue is attendedby angels. Tintorettos real name was Jacopo Robusti;his nickname came from the fact that hisfather was a dyer and young Jacopo oftenhelped in the trade. Often his artist compan-ions called him II Furioso, and gave the justcriticism on his too rapid work that Tinto-retto is often inferior to Tintoretto. Thoughhe painted so many pictures that to-day theyare rotting on the walls of Venice, yet weare proud that we own four in the ]\Iuseum(see galleries 28 and 29). We are fortunate in having one painting byPaolo Veronese (1528-1588). In the pictureof Mars and Venus United by Love () Verone
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