International studio (23.1904)

Studio-Talk


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presented by five portraits, one of which is a group
of a lady seated at a pianoforte with three little girls :
the colour is rich and harmonious, and two of the
children’s heads very charming in expression and
execution; the hands, though, which in a portrait


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count for so much, are carelessly rendered, and
the same may be said of the large bunch of roses
right in the foreground.

studies of the Alban hills and sea-coast near
Rome ; and also in the works of his later years,
when he had come under the influence of the
delicate spiritual beauty of the Tuscan scenery
—Sunset in the Cascine, Lucca, The Pine Wood
at Bocca tf Arno.

The general level of the work of the Italian
painters was, perhaps, higher than it has been in
the exhibitions of the last few years, and vastly
superior to anything shown in Rome some ten
years ago, but there were more single works of
exceptional merit on view in 1902 and 1903.
The majority of the pictures were respectable per-
formances, frequently exhibiting an earnest search
after new systems of technique, after brilliancy of
light and atmospheric effect, after realism at all
costs—even at that of beauty.
In portraiture, always a high test of an artist’s
powers, there were few noticeable things. Count
Napoleon Parisani exhibited three small, delicate,
highly refined portraits, two of children and one, ex-
ceptionally good in feeling, colour, and expression,
of Sigra. Vera Angeli. Edouardo Gioja, well known
in England, where he has lived some years, was re-
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