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...sixteenth century represents the climax of Italian art. During that period elegance, taste, and sensuousness in the highest degree were developed in the work of the Venetian painters, at the head of whom stand Titian, Gorgona, Tintoretto, and Verrezana. The doings of these four are of the greatest importance in the history of art, not only because of what they built up but because of what they pulled down. It was they who dealt the death blow to religion as the object of art. This does not mean that religious subjects were discarded by them, but that they sought...
...famous "Bella," by Titian, engraved from the original by T. Cole, furnishes the frontispiece of this number of The Century, and calls attention anew to the fact that the Cole pictures are now at their most interesting point, having reached the most splendid period of Italian art. American art is interestingly represented by a full-page engraving of Brush's "Killing the Moose...
...Theory of Ethics. (See Shaftesbury's "Inquiry concerning Virtue.") 2. The Philosophy and Limitations of Painting. 3. The use of the pointed Arch in Gothic architecture. Was the pointed arch an importation from the East, or a result of the constructive exigencies of vaulting? 4. A comparison of Titian and Rembrandt as colorists. 5. The employment of figure sculpture as an adjunct to architecture in Italy and France respectively. 6. Has Psychology profited to any appreciable extent by the discoveries made in the anatomy and physiology of the brain and the rest of the nervous system? 7. Discuss...
...limitations of an artist-in regard to the interpretations of his subject,-and in regard to the regard for the morale of the subject, Dr. Everett closed his address by reciting some lines written by him after passing through the "offices" at Florence, when the Venuses of Titian are. The address was interesting throughout, and at times eloquent...
...Howells has in press a new poem, the subject of which is located in Italy and has to do with art and the times of Titian. It is an experiment in hexameters...