But delightful as
Longhi, Canale, and Guardi are, and imbued as they are with the spirit of their
own century, they lack the quality of force, without which there can be no
really impressive style. This quality their contemporary Tiepolo possessed to
the utmost. His energy, his feeling for splendour, his mastery over his craft,
place him almost on a level with the great Venetians of the sixteenth century,
although he never allows one to forget what he owes to them,original oil paintings, particularly to
Veronese. The grand scenes he paints differ from those of his predecessor not so
much in mere inferiority of workmanship, as in a lack of that simplicity and
candour which never failed Paolo, no matter how proud the event he might be
portraying. Tiepolo's people are haughty, as if they felt that to keep a firm
hold on their dignity they could not for a moment relax their faces and figures
from a monumental look and bearing. They evidently feel themselves so superior
that they are not pleasant to live with,abstract oil painting, although they carry themselves so well,
and are dressed with such splendour, that once in a while it is a great pleasure
to look at them. It was Tiepolo's vision of the world that was at fault, and his
vision of the world was at fault only because the world itself was at fault.
Paolo saw a world touched only by the fashions of the Spanish Court, while
Tiepolo lived among people whose very hearts had been vitiated by its
measureless haughtiness. abstract oil paintings on canvas
But Tiepolo's feeling for strength, for movement, and for colour was great
enough to give a new impulse to art. At times he seems not so much the last of
the old masters as the first of the new. The works he left in Spain do more than
a little to explain the revival of painting in that country under Goya; and
Goya, in his turn, had a great influence upon many of the best French artists of
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