Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · New York, H. Holt and Company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 304
await their audience. This room is chieflydecorated with mythological pictures, representing thewealth, power, and arts of later Venice. L. of the door by which you enter, Tintoretto, ^Mercurywith the Graces—the commerce and civilisation of Venice ;noble specimens of nude figures, admirably… … vil] THE DOGES PALACE 227 Many of Tintorettos pictures are outlines of a mood, notesof an emotion stimulated by some inspiration and carried nofurther. That is not the case here. The human form iselaborated with loving care. Bacchus is the mystical powerof nature, the soul of that tonic strength…
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