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Title: Landscape and figure painters of America
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940
Subjects: Landscape painting Figure painting
Publisher: New York : Privately printed
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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randeur inspired Titian with an intenselove. It was in this place, at the village ofValle, that the battle of Cadore was fought,and this is the scene described in his greatpicture of that battle, though like Turner andother artists he took some liberty with themountains, and the bridge over the riverBoita, to suit his picture. He also paintedsome fine landscapes in the Adoration of theMagi, and the Supper at Emmaus, andthere is in the Pitti Palace, Florence, a draw-ing, without any figures in it, of a scene inthe Cadore country. A wood of great treesis shown on the left, reminding one of Rous-seaus oaks on the edge of a forest, and to theright there is seen open country with mountainsin the distance, a very modern compositionfor that day. (See Plate 5.) Tintoretto also has a remarkable piece oflandscape work in the Gathering of theManna, and in the tree trunks and foliageof the Crucifixion, and also in the treesand sky of the Flight into Egypt. In the following very beautiful passage,
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A BRIEF HISTORY II Ruskin expresses his surprise that Titian andTintoretto did not more fully realize that thebeauties of the scenery of their native landwere subjects in every way worthy of their art. From the window of Titians house atVenice the chain of the Tyrolese Alps is seenlifted in spectral power above the tufted plainof Treviso; every dawn that reddens the towersof Murano lights also a line of pyramidal firesalong that colossal ridge; but there is, so faras I know, no evidence in any of the mastersworks of his ever having beheld, much less Modemfelt, the majesty of their burning. The dark ^ntIersfirmament and saddened twilight of Tintoret Page 77.are sufficient for their end, but the sun never edition,plunges behind San Giorgio in Aliga withoutsuch retinue of radiant cloud, such rest ofzoned light on the green lagoon, as never re-ceived image from his hand. More than this,of that which they loved and rendered, muchis rendered conventionally; by noble conven-tionalities indee

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