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Renaissance and modern art (1894)

Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa. : Flood and Vincent · leaf 172

An illustration from Renaissance and modern art, 1894, leaf 172
n. Venice Academy Correggio and Titian. 165 To such an art strong emotion or rapid action was gener-ally foreign. Half-figure pieces were much affected andhere make their appearance for the first time in Italianart. (In the seventeenth century they became general.)A noble and dignified repose is a… … Fig. 96.—St. Bridget offering Flowers to the Infant Savior. Titian. Madrid. rarely if ever equaled in later times, and when they aretaken in bulk have never been subsequently rivaled.What we admire later in Velasquez or in Van Dyck was theeveryday art of a sixteenth century Venetian portrait. The…

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