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The Venetian School of Painting (1912)

Phillipps, Evelyn March, d. 1915 · London : Macmillan and Co., limited · leaf 57

An illustration from The Venetian School of Painting, 1912, leaf 57
most closely followedis the great picture in the Academy, the^ Madonna enthroned, where she sits undera baldaquin surrounded by saints. Here theGothic surroundings become very florid, andhave a gingerbread-cake eff^ect, which Italiantaste would hardly have tolerated. Manyfeatures are characteristic… … THE SCHOOL OF MURANO the tender expression which came into Venetianart with Gentile. Giovanni d Alemagna and Antonio da Muranowere no doubt widely employed, and when theformer died Antonio founded and carried on areal school in Venice. In 1446 he was living inthe parish of S. Maria Formosa with his…

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