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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. (1914)

Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles) · London : Simpkin · leaf 198

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Titians work inasmuchas the Amdromeda 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… … Ube ZlDasterpieces of tbc 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 by somethat the…

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