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...Mantua, from Vienna to Madrid. Thus dispersed, the works were hard to reassemble. Yet Laclotte and his team have brought together no fewer than 55 major paintings by Titian himself, along with about 200 drawings and prints. For comparison, there are a further 200 or so works by the Venetian artists who shaped him -- Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini -- and by those who were inspired by him. The latter group, ranging from Veronese, Tintoretto and Jacopo Bassano in Venice to Savoldo in Brescia and Dosso Dossi in Ferrara, is large, since Titian was one of the half a dozen or so most...
...through this show only once produces surfeit. It demands repeated visits, and at the end of each you are called back, not only by the splendor of the works but also by a sort of postcoital regret provoked by the contrast between the achievements of 16th century Venetian art and the sad entropy of our own fin de siecle...
...perception of other American tourists. Instead of wincing at the sight of fellow countrymen (that vintage lament "Why do the wrong Americans go abroad?"), now takes a perverse pride in spotting an overdressed couple from Houston berating a desk clerk or a homesick American family dashing into a Venetian Wendy's. The U.S. cannot be that broke, comes the comforting thought, since some of us still have enough credit left on our charge cards to venture abroad. As the outdoor piano in front of Florian cafe plays Feelings, there is an irresistible urge to gauge world prosperity by categorizing vacationers...
...though wingless) and Madonna. In particular Matisse inherited the pastoral mode, replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals tend to be generic rather than specific -- "a nymph" rather than Egeria or Daphne, "a warrior" rather than Alexander -- so are Matisse's scenes of Hesiodic primitive life. We will never know what mythological event the standing nude in Le Luxe (II), 1907-08?, with a crouching woman...
...Dutch burgher's housefront, with mock-medieval sculptures by the gifted Eusebi Arnau -- including animals blowing glass and taking photos, these having been the owner's hobbies. Another is Puig's exquisitely decorated house for the Baron Quadras, now a museum of musical instruments; a third, the Venetian-Gothic Casa Marti, housed the center of Barcelona's artistic bohemia, the Four Cats cafe, where established artists like Ramon Casas hobnobbed with younger ones like Picasso...