Word: titian
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...have read Oscar Wilde's poems, and we feel as if we had spent the day in a boudoir furnished with daisies and cat-tails in Kensington, alternately looking at one of Titian's Venuses and poring over the Song of Solomon and the Lamentation of Ezekiel. - [Vassar...
...only a head to paint, I might take the Florentines as masters, but I must give Antigone the rest of herself as well as a head. Only Venice and Athens remain; which shall it be? I will make a compromise by taking color and chiaroscuro from Titian, form from the Greeks. Now I am ready to proceed with the execution...
...Middle Ages, and of the various schools of art all over the continent of Europe. The reputation of one great teacher was sufficient to draw to Bologna or Padua students from the semi-barbarous Poland or the far-distant England. The genius of Titian made Venice the resort of his many admirers and pupils, in the same way that Michelangelo was the centre of art in Florence and Rome...
...small copy of Carpatio's celebrated Saint Ursula, showing the head and bust of the reclining saint, into which Mr. Moore has put all the perfections and imperfections of the original; another represents the group of Apostles that occupies the lower part of Titian's "Annunciation of the Virgin"; and the third is taken from Tintoretto...
...Titian had given his life to paint...