Studio: international art (80.1920)

THE RECENT WORK OF ETTORE TITO

'RITORNO" (THE RETURN)
BY ETTORE TITO

happy alone in being painters, capable of
nothing else save drawing and painting, is
becoming every day more rare and difficult
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A few lines on this important and suc-
cessful exhibition will here be appropriate.
The Pesaro Gallery, which has recently
taken a more and more important part in
Italian art exhibitions, scored one of its
highest successes when, in March 1919, its
doors were opened on some sixty-five of
Ettore Tito's recent paintings. All sides of
his art here found expression—the popular
scenes from Rocca di Papa, and Valsesia,
II maniscalco, Domenica a Fobello, II
mondo non finisce,—the realistic study of II
moccichino, the finely imaginative Ritorno,
where the peasant, mounted on his mule,
climbs the mountain side, with his wife

and babe following just behind ; in por-
traiture the admirable likeness of Dr.
Corrado Ricci, the charming head of
Signora Venturini, in religious art the fine
Deposition, in mythology the Centaurs and
Nymphs, The Amazons, the Perseus and
Andromeda, in decorative art the studies
for his paintings of the Villa Berlinghieri;
and the success of this Milan exhibition
was repeated in Paris. 000
It will be noted, even in the above
selection, that Tito has broadened this
stream of his creative art. The pupil of
Favretto has gone back to the wider
tradition of Veronese and Tiepolo, has
turned from that intimate charm of Vene-
tian life to the grandest tradition of Vene-
tian decoration. I will own frankly that
there have been moments when I had

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