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...painting is carefully executed according to a very definite method of procedure, and the surface is beautiful in quality like those of his earlier works. In paintings of this type, Turner's method in its combination of under-painting, transparent glazes, and opaque scumbles suggests that of the great Venetian figure painters, applied to landscape. The whole picture is wonderfully luminous and transparent, and the delicate plays of light are very subtly and convincingly expressed. Most remarkable perhaps is the expression of existence in three dimensional space achieved by the carefully thought out design and the calculated execution...
...decoration of one of the rooms in the Ducal Palace in Venice. Like them, the picture at the Fogg Museum, although extremely simple in its expression, is masterly in design, and it exhibits the extraordinary skill in direct handling, which makes Tintoretto perhaps the most brilliant of the Venetian painters...
From the standpoint of the student of painting, the picture possesses the additional interest of being unfinished, so that the whole Venetian method of painting from the dark ground tone up to the last glaze is clearly revealed. There is probably no other painting by Tintoretto in this country, which so completely suggests the quality of his work in the Ducal Palace and San Rocco, in Venice...
...Museum is open from 9 to 5 o'clock on week days, and from 1 to 5 on Sundays. There is no admission fee. The exhibition contains the works of many old masters of Venetian and Florentine, schools...
...Lecture. "The Golden Age of Venetian Painting." Mr. Kenyon Cox, of New York. Lecture Room, Fogg Art Museum...