International studio (48.1913)

The Layard Collection

“ADORATION OF THE MAGI ” (Photo. Alinari) BY GENTILE BELLINI


nople, is a painter whom it is impossible to replace,
and this picture in the Layard Collection is exquisite.
Poetically conceived, the sea which stretches out
before the group of Saint Ursula and her parents
has all the grace and naivete of the Master of the
Scuola degli Schiavoni so dear to John Ruskin.
On looking at this picture in the Palazzo Cappello
one experiences the most profound impression, an
impression greater than that made by the two other
Carpaccios belonging to the collection, an Assump-
tion and a curious Augustus and. the Silyl.

A great deal of importance at the present time
is given to the Portrait of an Unknown Man, by
Luigi Vivarini. And here, indeed, we have a
picture which gives a very high idea of this master’s
work, and on looking at it one may well think of
Antonello, save that there is rather less insistence
upon detail. Energy, brilliant colour, sound
modelling—these are the characteristics of this
iconographic painting which is destined for a place
in the National Gallery near to that grand Portrait
of a Young Man, supposed to be the painter him-


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(Photo. Alinari)

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