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EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
In the year 1794 the citizens of Venice resolved
to erect a noble and befitting monument to his
memory. Canova made the design;—but the
troubles which intervened, and the extinction of the
Republic, prevented the execution of this project.
Canova’s magnificent model was appropriated to
another purpose, and now forms the cenotaph of
the Archduchess Christina, in the church of the
Augustins at Vienna.
This was the life and death of the famous Titian.
He was pre-eminently the painter of nature; but
to him nature was clothed in a perpetual garb of
beauty, or rather, to him nature and beauty were
one. In historical compositions and sacred sub-
jects he has been rivalled and surpassed, but as a
portrait painter never; and his portraits of cele-
brated persons have at once the truth and the dig-
nity of history. It would be in vain to attempt
to give any account of his works; numerous as
they are, not all that are attributed to him in va-
rious galleries are his : many are by Palma, Boni-
fazio, and others his contemporaries, who imitated
his manner with more or less success. As almost
every gallery in Europe, public and private, con-
tains pictures attributed to him, we shall not at-
tempt to enumerate even the acknowledged chefs
d'oeuvre. It will be interesting, however, to give
some account of those of his works contained in
EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
In the year 1794 the citizens of Venice resolved
to erect a noble and befitting monument to his
memory. Canova made the design;—but the
troubles which intervened, and the extinction of the
Republic, prevented the execution of this project.
Canova’s magnificent model was appropriated to
another purpose, and now forms the cenotaph of
the Archduchess Christina, in the church of the
Augustins at Vienna.
This was the life and death of the famous Titian.
He was pre-eminently the painter of nature; but
to him nature was clothed in a perpetual garb of
beauty, or rather, to him nature and beauty were
one. In historical compositions and sacred sub-
jects he has been rivalled and surpassed, but as a
portrait painter never; and his portraits of cele-
brated persons have at once the truth and the dig-
nity of history. It would be in vain to attempt
to give any account of his works; numerous as
they are, not all that are attributed to him in va-
rious galleries are his : many are by Palma, Boni-
fazio, and others his contemporaries, who imitated
his manner with more or less success. As almost
every gallery in Europe, public and private, con-
tains pictures attributed to him, we shall not at-
tempt to enumerate even the acknowledged chefs
d'oeuvre. It will be interesting, however, to give
some account of those of his works contained in