Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painter by Peeping. Hundreds of people walked through the palatial rooms daily, admiring the works of the once-scorned Renaissance master. In paintings such as Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (opposite), they could see Bassano's dazzling treatment of light and color. Now there was appreciation for his gentle landscapes -the first by an Italian to resemble the actual country, instead of arranged scenery -and the dogs, cats, cows, sheep, goats, asses, rabbits and doves that populated so many of his canvases. Italian critics were warm. "A maestro," exclaimed Il Popolo, "who recapitulated a whole golden age of painting...
Jacopo's father was a painter, and the son handled brushes from childhood, adding touches to his father's canvases. He was only 15 when he left Bassano to be apprenticed in Venice to Bonifazio di Pitati. who had the disconcerting and unhelpful habit of locking himself in his studio when he was painting. Jacopo proved resourceful, peeped through the keyhole "to learn the master's methods and copy his works...
Beside the fame and accomplishments of Tintoretto and Titian, Venetian snobs considered simple Bassano a peasant. But the painters respected him. Titian turned commissions over to him, telling clients that since they were people of taste he knew that they would be pleased with Bassano's work. When Bassano's reputation as an animal painter was growing, a client of Tintoretto, in an argument over a portrait of himself, threatened to fly into a "beastly rage," only to hear Tintoretto placidly say, "Go to Jacopo. He is an excellent painter of beasts. He will do a wonderful portrait...
Taming Madness. Goya, the painter of Spanish court tapestries and of such lovable children as Don Manuel Osorio, forever lost the world of sound through his illness in 1792. He feared for his sight as well, and even for his sanity. Slowly he ceased painting charming pictures and embarked on the hard-to-take masterpieces that made him an immortal. His purpose, he wrote, was simply "to occupy my imagination, which was troubled by consideration of my ills." Goya's art, Malraux maintains, consists of "taming madness so as to make a language...
...Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, now teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. At any time he is apt to load his family into a battered station wagon with palette and easel and take to the hills or the canyons of the Big Bend. A prolific painter, Spruce takes only a couple of days to complete a canvas, sells his paintings...