Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : Duckworth ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 268
that a man ofthose advanced years, with only one eye, should haveexecuted such large and beautiful works.^ Theseclassical themes, however, were clearly less congenial 1 Iliad, Bk. V. 2 It was, possibly, executed from a design of Garofalo by Girolamoda Carpi. 3 Vasari, VI.p. 467. A small design for… … oo < Oo H D o 00 a. q a PS GAROFALO i8i to the painter ; Mr. Benson well notes that Garofalowas one who, in appropriating a classic myth, failedto transmute it, and left it cold and conventional. ^Far more attractive are his smaller religious pictures,of which so many are scattered through the…
