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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.68745#0035
ENVIRONMENT
of the Paduan school were the inheritance of the artist of the
sixteenth century. The art of painting, like the sun’s rays, at
last pierced Venetian soil, soil impregnated with a thousand subtle
influences of the East, and in which even may have lain dormant
the seeds of that far-off Asiatic extraction.
The men who turned themselves to painting at that moment
had, one and all, the impulse for passionate colour in their very
blood, and that impulse was abetted and intensified by every
circumstance of life, and welcomed by every patron and spectator.
Then it was that Giorgione called the tune, and he and his
successors swept into their kingdom. Giorgione, Titian, Bonifazio,
Paris Bordone, Palma, Veronese, Tintoretto,—their names suggest
the very essence of the spirit of a time which is best recorded for
us in their work.
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of the Paduan school were the inheritance of the artist of the
sixteenth century. The art of painting, like the sun’s rays, at
last pierced Venetian soil, soil impregnated with a thousand subtle
influences of the East, and in which even may have lain dormant
the seeds of that far-off Asiatic extraction.
The men who turned themselves to painting at that moment
had, one and all, the impulse for passionate colour in their very
blood, and that impulse was abetted and intensified by every
circumstance of life, and welcomed by every patron and spectator.
Then it was that Giorgione called the tune, and he and his
successors swept into their kingdom. Giorgione, Titian, Bonifazio,
Paris Bordone, Palma, Veronese, Tintoretto,—their names suggest
the very essence of the spirit of a time which is best recorded for
us in their work.
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