. The Venetian School of Painting. animal-painter. It is nowonder that Teniers borrowed ideas from him,and has more than once imitated his wholedesign. The Baptism of St. Lucilla (in the Museumat Bassano) is one of his most Titianesquecreations. The personages in it are groupedupon a flight of steps, in front of a long Renais-sance palace with cypresses against a sky ofevening-red barred with purple clouds. Thedrawing and modelling of the figures are almostfaultless, and the colour is dazzling. The bend-ing figure of S. Lucilla, with the light fallingon her silvery satin dress, as she kneels b
. The Venetian School of Painting. animal-painter. It is nowonder that Teniers borrowed ideas from him,and has more than once imitated his wholedesign. The Baptism of St. Lucilla (in the Museumat Bassano) is one of his most Titianesquecreations. The personages in it are groupedupon a flight of steps, in front of a long Renais-sance palace with cypresses against a sky ofevening-red barred with purple clouds. Thedrawing and modelling of the figures are almostfaultless, and the colour is dazzling. The bend-ing figure of S. Lucilla, with the light fallingon her silvery satin dress, as she kneels beforethe young bishop, St. Valentine, is one of themost graceful things in art, and Titian himselfneed not have disowned the little angels, bearingpalm branches and frolicking in the stream ofradiance overhead. Bassano has a Concert, which is interestingas a family piece. It was painted in the yearin which his son Leandros marriage took place,and is probably a bridal painting to celebratethe event. The Magistrates in Adoration 274. BAPTISM OF S. LUCILLA. {Photo, Alinari.) Bassano. BASSANO (Vicenza) again gives a brilliant effect of light,and its stately ceremonial is founded on Tin-torettos numerous pictures of kneeling dogesand procurators in fur-trimmed velvet robes. Madonnas and saints are usually built intoclose-packed pyramids, but in the Repose inEgypt/ now in the Ambrosiana, Milan, hisarrangement comes very close to Palma andLotto. The beautiful Mother and Child, theattendants, above all the St. Joseph, resting,head on hand, at the Virgins feet and gazingin rapt adoration on the Child, are examples ofthe true Venetian manner, while the exquisitelandscape behind them, and the vigorously drawntree under which they recline, show Bassanotrue to his passion for nature. Hampton Court is rich in his pictures.^The Adoration of the Shepherds, in whichthe pillars rise behind the sacred group, is anexercise in the manner of Titians Frari altar-piece. His portraits are fine and symp
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