In Salvator, the imagination is vigorous, the composition dextrous and clever, as in the St. Jerome of the Brera Gallery, the Diogenes of the Pitti,
and the pictures of the Guadagni palace. All are rendered valueless by
coarseness of feeling and habitual non-reference to nature. oil paintings online
All the landscape of Nicolo Poussin is imaginative, but the development of
the power in Tintoret and Titian is so unapproachably intense that the mind
unwillingly rests elsewhere. The four landscapes which occur to me as the most
magnificently characteristic are, first, the Flight into Egypt, of the Scuola di
San Rocco (Tintoret;) secondly, the Titian of the Camuccini collection at Rome,
with the figures by John Bellini; thirdly, Titian's St. Jerome, in the Brera
Gallery at Milan; and fourthly, the St. Pietro Martire, which I name last, in
spite of its importance,abstract oil paintings on canvas, because there is something unmeaning and unworthy of
Titian about the undulation of the trunks, and the upper part of it is destroyed
by the intrusion of some dramatic clouds of that species which I have enough
described in our former examination of the central cloud region, § 13. abstract oil paintings for sale
I do not mean to set these four works above the rest of the landscape of
these masters; I name them only because the landscape is in them prominent and
characteristic. It would be well to compare with them the other backgrounds of
Tintoret in the Scuola, especially that of the Temptation and the Agony in [Page 160] the Garden, and the
landscape of the two large pictures in the church of La Madonna dell' Orto. modern abstract art oil painting
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