This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...Venice for a private gentleman at Faenza in whose house it remained during a part of the sixteenth century; and it was not till the seventeenth that its fame increased so as to make it welcome first in the gallery of a queen, and last in the collection of an English peer. Lord Ellesmere's 'Three Ages" is an ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...Venice for a private gentleman at Faenza in whose house it remained during a part of the sixteenth century; and it was not till the seventeenth that its fame increased so as to make it welcome first in the gallery of a queen, and last in the collection of an English peer. Lord Ellesmere's 'Three Ages" is an idyll equally simple in form and in colour. A beautiful girl sits near her lover " and the holy feeling of youthful innocence and affection is charmingly expressed in both." At the foot of a tree the lover--a shepherd in scantiest attire--rests in front of his maid on the sward, leaning one arm on her shoulder, as she, facing him and crowned with flowers, looks into his eyes and directs his awkward hand to the stops of the reed pipes. We strike again the key-note of " Artless love," yet with what an incomparable sweetness of tone. But the tale is merely half told. The middle ground to the right shows us Cupid at the side of a tree stump stepping on to the forms of two sleeping children, whilst in the distance of a quiet landscape, an old man philosophically contemplates two skulls on the ground. The qualities of this picture are: breadth of tint, spareness of pigment, and little or no touch, much transparence and a balanced distribution of warm shadow and modelled light excluding sharp contrasts of all kinds. There are vibrations in it of a very tender harmony, much akin to that of a touching melody in music. In the eyes of most critics of a past age this was Giorgionesque art, and in so far as we acknowledge Giorgione to be the master who first perfected the portrait idyll, this cannot be denied; but the Giorgionesque feeling is still more conspicuous when we consider that the youth's head, with its rich accompaniment of locks, is cast in a...
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