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THE SUTHERLAND GALLERY.
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Those beings were created, not painted. They live and
move in circumambient air; an atmosphere interfused with
light and shadow floats round them, beyond them. The
son, in an agony of humiliation and penitence, sinks at the
feet of his parent; and even while the supplication yet
trembles on his lips, the father folds him trembling to his
forgiving heart. Never was a divine lesson more divinely
illustrated!
fitalian, ^pantelj, anti flFrend)
painters.
*** Those pictures which formed part of the old Stafford Gallery, are
distinguished hy S. G., placed after the description.
ALESSANDRO VERONESE (Turchi, called also L’Orbetto), b.
1580; d. 1650. [Distinguished among the later Venetians by his
correct drawing and careful, smooth finishing, but apt to be heavy in
effect, and not an interesting painter. See p. 96.]
1 Christ and the Woman of Samaria.—Figures life
size, and not quite full length. From the gallery of Count
Lecchi, at Brescia.
The Marchese D’AZEGLIO, (living in 1842.) [A nobleman of
Milan, distinguished for his various accomplishments, and author of
the popular romance of “ Ettore Fieramosca.”]
2 Landscape.—A scene in the civil wars in Tuscany.
3 Landscape.—A scene from Ariosto. Two large pic-
tures.
BASSANO (Giacopo da Ponte), b. 1510 ; d. 1592. [This Venetian
painter passed his life chiefly at Bassano, a little country town,
where he and his four sons set up a kind of manufactory of pictures ;
painted everything—history, sacred and profane; genre, portrait,
still life:—but treated all subjects in the same familiar style, without
taste or selection, seldom rising to dignity or sentiment, but quite
original and peculiar in the vivid brilliancy of his colour, and a cer-
179
Those beings were created, not painted. They live and
move in circumambient air; an atmosphere interfused with
light and shadow floats round them, beyond them. The
son, in an agony of humiliation and penitence, sinks at the
feet of his parent; and even while the supplication yet
trembles on his lips, the father folds him trembling to his
forgiving heart. Never was a divine lesson more divinely
illustrated!
fitalian, ^pantelj, anti flFrend)
painters.
*** Those pictures which formed part of the old Stafford Gallery, are
distinguished hy S. G., placed after the description.
ALESSANDRO VERONESE (Turchi, called also L’Orbetto), b.
1580; d. 1650. [Distinguished among the later Venetians by his
correct drawing and careful, smooth finishing, but apt to be heavy in
effect, and not an interesting painter. See p. 96.]
1 Christ and the Woman of Samaria.—Figures life
size, and not quite full length. From the gallery of Count
Lecchi, at Brescia.
The Marchese D’AZEGLIO, (living in 1842.) [A nobleman of
Milan, distinguished for his various accomplishments, and author of
the popular romance of “ Ettore Fieramosca.”]
2 Landscape.—A scene in the civil wars in Tuscany.
3 Landscape.—A scene from Ariosto. Two large pic-
tures.
BASSANO (Giacopo da Ponte), b. 1510 ; d. 1592. [This Venetian
painter passed his life chiefly at Bassano, a little country town,
where he and his four sons set up a kind of manufactory of pictures ;
painted everything—history, sacred and profane; genre, portrait,
still life:—but treated all subjects in the same familiar style, without
taste or selection, seldom rising to dignity or sentiment, but quite
original and peculiar in the vivid brilliancy of his colour, and a cer-