The art of the Wallace Collection, including an account of its founders, a description of the pictures, and a survey of the chief exhibits in the galleries devoted to objects of art and arms and armour (1913)
Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles) · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 198
Titians work inasmuchas the Andromeda supports the contention that theartist knew neither passion nor desire. A femalebody did not signify a woman for him, but a har-mony of form, line and colour. Like his pictureof Alfonso dEste placing his mailed fist upon thebosom of his beloved is Titians… … Q W o Qen w I—t H M XTDe /iDasterpteces ot tbe Collection 139 clared her more lovely than the Nereids. The pic-ture, too, is painted in so low a key that the entirecomposition makes perhaps the least sensual ren-dering of the famous myth. And, notwithstandingthe fame of Titian, it may be objected…
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