Word: titians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Ludwig Mond owned many an old painting - an early Raphael, a Botticelli, a Titian. These he bequeathed as the Mond Collection, contingent upon his wife's death, to the National Gallery in London...
...artists may be grouped into the six Italian schools: Duccio di Buoninsegna of the Siena; Lippo Memmi and Brenna of Simone de Martino influence; Giotto, Ghirlandajo, Botticelli, del Sarto of the Florentine; Luini of the Milanese; Romano and Signorelli of the Ferrarese; Carlo Crivelli, Antonello, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Palma, Lotto, del Piombo, Bonifazio and Paolo Veronese of the Venetian. The Venetians enjoy the greatest representation...
Among the greatest single pieces are Ghirlandajo's portrait of Francesco Sassetti (banking partner of de Medici) and his son, seen in his bank at Lyons, against a background of harbor and water front; a Titian representing the Madonna and Infant Christ; Piero di Cosimo's picture of Hylas, Hercules' favorite, discovered in a meadow by water nymphs...
...Venetian painting in Fine Arts Id in the New Fogg Museum. The rich colors of the Venetian masters contrast pleasantly with the finer drawing, but more restrained work of the Florentine school. Let it be remembered also that among the artists of the Venetian school are Giovanni. Bellini, Titian, Tinterette, Veronesse, Tiepolo and many others...
...That it is the work of Titian all the critics who have seen it, with remarkable and unusual accord, agree. The noble design is his invention, and no one but he could have carried out in this rich and lustrous color such subtleties of detail, combined with breadth and solidity of form. Examine it closely and note these subtleties- the unevenness of the skin; the differences in the texture of the flesh, how here it sags and there it is drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils...