. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . ADOLPHUS DE GUILDRE THREATENING HIS FATHER. {From the original painting by Rembrandt.) THE BELLJNF S. 35 Sultan and the Sultana his mother, now in the British Museum. The painter alsopainted the head of John the Baptist in a charger as an offering—only too suitable—from him to the Grand Turk. The legend goes on to tell that in the course of thepresentation of the gift, an incident occurred which induced Gentile Bellini to quitthe Ottoman Court with all haste. The Sultan had criticized the appearance of theneck in John the Ba
. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . ADOLPHUS DE GUILDRE THREATENING HIS FATHER. {From the original painting by Rembrandt.) THE BELLJNF S. 35 Sultan and the Sultana his mother, now in the British Museum. The painter alsopainted the head of John the Baptist in a charger as an offering—only too suitable—from him to the Grand Turk. The legend goes on to tell that in the course of thepresentation of the gift, an incident occurred which induced Gentile Bellini to quitthe Ottoman Court with all haste. The Sultan had criticized the appearance of theneck in John the Baptists severed head, and when Gentile ventured to defend hiswork, the Sultan proceeded to prove the correctness of his criticism, by drawing hisscimitar and cutting off at a stroke the head of a kneeling slave, and pointing to thespouting blood and the shrinking muscle, gave the horrified painter a lesson in prac-tical anatomy. On Gentiles return from the East, he was pensioned by his State,and lived on painting, till he was eighty years of age, dying in 1501.
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