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"SAND-CARRIERS BY FRANCESCO GIOLI

would point out a clever painting by Emilio Gola, In the next Venetian Room (Sala XXV.) we

Beside the Wharf, as well as Borsa's Winter shall notice the work of the three Ciardi. Beppo,

Evening. the younger Ciardi, has here a canvas full of light

Passing through the Sala Emiliana, with Majani's in his Sourires; but personally I find myself strongly

charming moonlight study Le hameau dort, and attracted by Signorina Emma Ciardi's Paroles

Scattola's Assisi, we come, in the Sala Toscana, to Antiques, where the terrace, with its white sculpture

the art of modem Florence. Here Luigi Gioli and monumental cypresses, with its masked figure

comes before us with his Volterra Fair and his from the Venice of Goldoni, has something of the

clever study of horses in the Pisan plain treading indefinable charm of the great Bocklin's Todten

out the corn. Here, too, are Nomellini's Love and Insel. Here, too, that excellent Venetian artist

Leaves (p. 273), Francesco Gioli's Sand-Carriers Vincenzo de Stefani, who figured well in the last

(above); and near it is a sunset, very good in exhibition, has two paintings, a study of a young

colour, and a group of naked children dancing on girl in white and a beautiful sunset, The Evening

the Tyrrhenian strand, which he calls Youth. LLarmony. Here, too, is Milesi's portrait of Giosiih

In the South Italian room De Maria Bergler's Cardiccci, the poet whom all Italy this spring has

studies of Taormina (the smaller are here the best) mourned (p. 270) ; and here Vizzotto, in his

and Viole are to be noted, with the work of De Sirlnes, gives just the impression of a "burrasco"—

Sanctis and Tafuri. And now we come to the a squall such as sometimes comes up at short

Venetians themselves. Dall' Oca Bianca and De notice on these lagoons; while Sormani {Sur le

Blaas have wandered off into the South Italian Mole) has a quieter scene of nightfall at Venice,

room—the latter almost too smooth and sweet in Of the sculpture in these Italian rooms I need

his Girls of Campalto, the former full of piquancy not speak at any length. The central group in the

and vivacity in his Ctvette. Roman Sala, La Vetidange, with its figures of men

In the first Venetian Room Laurenti figures and a girl, is ambitious and sound in modelling,

largely with eighteen canvases. The most attractive But one of the most delightful things in the whole

to- me is his Pitorno, a girl in green dress, where exhibition is a little bronze of a dancing girl,

the whole conception seems reminiscent of Palma Printemps, by Rosales. This gem has been secured

Vecchio. Laurenti is no longer among the younger by the State for the National Gallery at Rome,

men (he was born in 1854), but is a fine and serious Antonio Ugo, whose group of a peasant mother

artist, who has followed his art into other branches, and child (Maternile) is among our illustrations,

such as sculpture and even architecture. (p. 278) also claims notice. Ugo is a Sicilian, and

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