Studio: international art (34.1905)

Two Italian Draughtsmen

by alberto martini

at Venice, in 1896, and executed for the most part broader and more vigorous than in The Court of
when he was not yet eighteen, showed by the Miracles, there is manifested an imaginative quality
efficient modelling of the
beggars' picturesquely
grotesque figures, that the
artist was already in full
command of his technical
means of expression ; and
furthermore, by the con-
ception and composition
of the different scenes, he
proved himself entirely
and luminously aware of
all he intended his graphic
pen to evoke. The inspir-
ation was taken literally
from Victor Hugo, and
pictorially from Callot ;
but the execution showed
German influence so mark-
edly that when Martini
subsequently exhibited the
work at Monaco, the
Bavarians welcomed him
as one of themselves.

German influence, and
more particularly that of
Sattler, is also apparent in
the two series entitled
The Poem of Labour, the
second of which was re-
cently on view in London
at the Exhibition of
Italian Arts and Indus-
tries. In these drawings,

where the execution is drawing b? ai.berto martini

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