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VENETIAN
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taste, cultivation, and talent play and reflect back upon him, as if
from a mirror the brightness of his own genius. His brother, his son,
Orazio, his two cousins, Cesare and Fabrizio, and his relative, Marco
di Tiziano, were all excellent painters. His daughter, Lavinia, dressed
as Flora, with a basket of fruit on her head, supplied him with a model
of fresh complexion and ample form. His talent flows on like a great
river in its bed, nothing disturbs its course, and its own increase is
sufficient. Like Leonardo and Michelangelo, Titian sees nothing
outside of his art.”
CATERINA CORNARO, QUEEN OF CYPRUS.
Titian Collection of
(1477-1576). Mr. John Ringling.
Proud and handsome this famous Queen and beauty looks down
upon us from the centuries. She is wearing a dress of gold and green
striped velvet with a pink camelia at her neck and one of those fash-
ionable, tall, sugar-loaf headdresses—called in France the hennin—•
with jewelled band around the rim and a floating veil. Very beauti-
fully are her pearls painted; and, fastened by a chain to a bracelet on
her left wrist, is a pet chameleon.
This portrait, oils on canvas (43 x 38 inches), came from the Ricardi
Palace, Florence, and from the Collection of R. S. Holford, Esq.,
Dorchester House,
Caterina Cornaro, “La Reine de Chy pre,” famous in song and story,
was the daughter of Marco Cornaro, a noble Venetian and descend-
ant of the Doge of the same name, and Florence, daughter of Niccold
Crispo, Duca dell’ Archipelago. Caterina was born in Venice in 1454,
educated at the Convent of San Benedetto in Padua, and reared in
all the wealth and elegance of the time. At an early age she was
married to the King of Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Armenia (Jacques de
Lusignan), who chose her from sixty-two of the most beautiful women
of Venice. The Senate, having adopted Caterina Cornaro as a daugh-
ter of the Republic, gave her a dowry of a hundred thousand golden
ducats and agreed to defend the Kingdom of Cyprus against all
enemies.
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taste, cultivation, and talent play and reflect back upon him, as if
from a mirror the brightness of his own genius. His brother, his son,
Orazio, his two cousins, Cesare and Fabrizio, and his relative, Marco
di Tiziano, were all excellent painters. His daughter, Lavinia, dressed
as Flora, with a basket of fruit on her head, supplied him with a model
of fresh complexion and ample form. His talent flows on like a great
river in its bed, nothing disturbs its course, and its own increase is
sufficient. Like Leonardo and Michelangelo, Titian sees nothing
outside of his art.”
CATERINA CORNARO, QUEEN OF CYPRUS.
Titian Collection of
(1477-1576). Mr. John Ringling.
Proud and handsome this famous Queen and beauty looks down
upon us from the centuries. She is wearing a dress of gold and green
striped velvet with a pink camelia at her neck and one of those fash-
ionable, tall, sugar-loaf headdresses—called in France the hennin—•
with jewelled band around the rim and a floating veil. Very beauti-
fully are her pearls painted; and, fastened by a chain to a bracelet on
her left wrist, is a pet chameleon.
This portrait, oils on canvas (43 x 38 inches), came from the Ricardi
Palace, Florence, and from the Collection of R. S. Holford, Esq.,
Dorchester House,
Caterina Cornaro, “La Reine de Chy pre,” famous in song and story,
was the daughter of Marco Cornaro, a noble Venetian and descend-
ant of the Doge of the same name, and Florence, daughter of Niccold
Crispo, Duca dell’ Archipelago. Caterina was born in Venice in 1454,
educated at the Convent of San Benedetto in Padua, and reared in
all the wealth and elegance of the time. At an early age she was
married to the King of Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Armenia (Jacques de
Lusignan), who chose her from sixty-two of the most beautiful women
of Venice. The Senate, having adopted Caterina Cornaro as a daugh-
ter of the Republic, gave her a dowry of a hundred thousand golden
ducats and agreed to defend the Kingdom of Cyprus against all
enemies.