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been confounded with the genuine works of that elegant and learned
artist.
In the picture before us, Schiavone has chosen for representation the
moment when Pilate, finding he could not prevail against the clamour
of the Jews, took water and washed his hands, saying, “ I am innocent
of the blood of this just person : see ye to it.” The composition is not
devoid of dignity, and the whole, though perhaps less captivating than
some of those pictures in which the artist had the opportunity of dis-
playing his easy flow of line, and exquisite beauty of colouring in female
figures, may be termed one of his most studied and careful performances,
This picture is on canvas, and measures 4 feet 11 inch in height,
by 6 feet 1 inch in width : it was purchased from the Orleans collection.
No. 20. ANDREA SCHIAVONE.
THE MARRIAGE OF ST. CATHARINE.
A genuine picture of Schiavone.
It is painted on canvas, and measures 3 feet 2 inches in height, by
3 feet 8 > inches in width.
No. 21. JACOPO RO BUSTI, called TINTORETTO.
Nat. 1512, ob. 1594.
THE BURIAL OF CHRIST.
Boldness of conception and daring execution, are the characteristics
of Tintoret. He scorned to walk the path so many had trodden before,
and seldom failed, by seizing a new point of time, or by the other means
which his art afforded him, to give an air of novelty even to the most
hackneyed subject. Although a careless, he was a learned designer, and
was well skilled in the difficult art of fore-shortening.
been confounded with the genuine works of that elegant and learned
artist.
In the picture before us, Schiavone has chosen for representation the
moment when Pilate, finding he could not prevail against the clamour
of the Jews, took water and washed his hands, saying, “ I am innocent
of the blood of this just person : see ye to it.” The composition is not
devoid of dignity, and the whole, though perhaps less captivating than
some of those pictures in which the artist had the opportunity of dis-
playing his easy flow of line, and exquisite beauty of colouring in female
figures, may be termed one of his most studied and careful performances,
This picture is on canvas, and measures 4 feet 11 inch in height,
by 6 feet 1 inch in width : it was purchased from the Orleans collection.
No. 20. ANDREA SCHIAVONE.
THE MARRIAGE OF ST. CATHARINE.
A genuine picture of Schiavone.
It is painted on canvas, and measures 3 feet 2 inches in height, by
3 feet 8 > inches in width.
No. 21. JACOPO RO BUSTI, called TINTORETTO.
Nat. 1512, ob. 1594.
THE BURIAL OF CHRIST.
Boldness of conception and daring execution, are the characteristics
of Tintoret. He scorned to walk the path so many had trodden before,
and seldom failed, by seizing a new point of time, or by the other means
which his art afforded him, to give an air of novelty even to the most
hackneyed subject. Although a careless, he was a learned designer, and
was well skilled in the difficult art of fore-shortening.