Bassano appealed to collectors by mere accident. He certainly did not
work for them. The painters who came after him and after Tintoretto no longer
worked unconsciously, as Veronese did, nor for the whole intelligent class, as
Titian and Tintoretto had done, but for people who prided themselves on their
connoisseurship. 4 Pieces paintings
Palma the Younger and Domenico Tintoretto began well enough as natural
followers of Tintoretto, but before long they became aware of their inferiority
to the masters who had preceded them, and, feeling no longer the strength to go
beyond them, fell back upon painting variations of those pictures of Tintoretto
and Titian which had proved most popular. So their works recall the great
masters, but only to bring out their own weakness. Padovanino, Liberi, and
Pietro della Vecchia went even lower down and shamelessly manufactured pictures
which, in the distant markets for which they were intended, passed for works of
Titian, Veronese, and Giorgione. Nor are these pictures altogether unenjoyable.
There are airs by the great composers we so love that we enjoy them even when
woven into the compositions of some third-rate master. oil painting on canvas for sale
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