The art of the Prado : a survey of the contents of the gallery, together with detailed criticisms of its masterpieces and biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them (1907)
Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931 · Boston : L.C. Page & company · leaf 300
thin the texture of the picture itself andthe general colour scheme, — which is bright,like the flayed Madonna and the Shepherd in the National Gallery, and fresh in pitch, likethe Three Ages of Man, —we find enchantingpieces of workmanship that have the edge andcrisp tender quality of a petal or a… … Xlttian anb Ibis flMctures in tbe iPrabo 285 subtlety of some of the details in the Bacchusand Ariadne, which Titian painted a few yearslater. The subject itself has no particular significanceof charm in Philostratus; there it is elaboratelydescriptive and ingenious: we find, as in mostliterary…
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