Studio: international art (21.1901)

Studio- Talk

with a breadth and a fluidity of touch, an assurance
and a technical skill rarely possessed by so young a
man, this scene, wherein Death attracts and
receives to its bosom these wretched relics of
humanity—the old and decayed, the mad, the
lunatic, the hysterical, the sick and the blind—
with the setting sun ablaze on the horizon, and
displaying a long procession of unhappy ones in an
avenue of cypresses, impresses the spectator
intensely, not only by the honest originality of its
conception, but by its masterly technique. The
picture, I may add, has been bought for the Turin
Gallery.

E. T.

274

ROME.—Many of the excellent remarks
made in The Studio on the subject
of Sir James Linton's latest deco-
rative picture may justly be applied
to the unceasing and original labours of some of
our Italian artists, who, scorning cheap successes,
really understand the religion of art. It is un-
necessary, however, with the reproduction of the
Quattro Stagioni before the reader's eyes, to insist
on the point, for all now can see that my opinion
of this work is honest and positive.

The author of these four works is Edoardo