. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph Bassano III Bassano. HAVE already told, in recounting thestory of our visit to the Cimbri, how fullof courtship we found the little city ofBassano on the evening of our arrivalthere. Bassano is the birthplace of thepainter Jacopo da Ponte, who was one of the first Italianpainters to treat scriptural story as accessory to merelandscape, and who had a peculiar fondness for paintingEntrances into the Ark, for in these he could indulgewithout stint the taste for pairing-off early acquiredfrom observ
. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph Bassano III Bassano. HAVE already told, in recounting thestory of our visit to the Cimbri, how fullof courtship we found the little city ofBassano on the evening of our arrivalthere. Bassano is the birthplace of thepainter Jacopo da Ponte, who was one of the first Italianpainters to treat scriptural story as accessory to merelandscape, and who had a peculiar fondness for paintingEntrances into the Ark, for in these he could indulgewithout stint the taste for pairing-off early acquiredfrom observation of local customs in his native was the theory offered by one who had imbibed thespirit of subtle speculation from Ruskin, and I think itreasonable. At least it does not conflict with the factthat there is at Bassano a most excellent gallery of paint-in.:- entirely devoted to the works of Jacopo da Ponte,and his four sons, who are here to be seen to better 237 Italian Sourness Bassano advantage than anywhere else. As few strangers visitBassano, the gallery is little frequented. It is in chargeof a ve
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