The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures (1903)
Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 1866- · Boston : L.C. Page · leaf 152
d by the great Vene-tian. The black texture of the garment is that ofsilk, not velvet. This portrait has unusual virility,— is wonderfully alive. Titian has been quoted as saying that red, white,and black are the only colours an artist needs. Atfirst glance one would say that he had literally… … HOWARD, DUKE OF NORFOLK (DETAIL) By Titian; in the Hall of Mars Xlbe 1baU ot /iDats 3 tery about the pencilling, sometimes called softness,sometimes freedom, and sometimes breadth; butin reality a most subtle confusion of colours andforms, in the same way that a mosaic owes muchof its beauty to the…
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