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    Titian; a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter
    Titian; a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter
    Titian; a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter
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    Titian; a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Titian; a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter - Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

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      Title: Titian; a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter

      Author: Estelle Hurll

      Release Date: July 16, 2012 [EBook #40251]

      Language: English

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      TITIAN

      Prado Gallery, Madrid

      TITIAN

      A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN PICTURES

      AND A PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER

      WITH INTRODUCTION AND

      INTERPRETATION

      BY

      ESTELLE M. HURLL

      BOSTON AND NEW YORK

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      PREFACE

      To give proper variety to this little collection, the selections are equally divided between portraits and subject pictures of religious or legendary character.

      The Flora, the Bella and the Philip II. show the painter’s most characteristic work in portraiture, while the Pesaro Madonna, the Assumption, and the Christ of the Tribute Money stand for his highest achievement in sacred art.

      ESTELLE M. HURLL.

      New Bedford, Mass.

      March, 1901.

      CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES

      INTRODUCTION

      I. ON TITIAN’S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST.

      There is no greater name in Italian art—therefore no greater in art—than that of Titian. These words of the distinguished art critic, Claude Phillips, express the verdict of more than three centuries. It is agreed that no other painter ever united in himself so many qualities of artistic merit. Other painters may have equalled him in particular respects, but rounded completeness, quoting another critic’s phrase, is what stamps Titian as a master. [1]

      To begin with the qualities which are apparent even in black and white reproduction, we are impressed at once with the vitality which informs all his figures. They are breathing human beings, of real flesh and blood, pulsing with life. They represent all classes and conditions, from such royal sitters as Charles V. and Philip II. to the peasants and boatmen who served as models for St. Christopher, St. John, and the Pharisee of the Tribute Money. They portray, too, every age: the tender infancy of the Christ child, the girlhood of the Virgin, the dawning manhood of the Man with the Glove, the maidenhood of Medea, the young motherhood of Mary, the virile middle life of Venetian Senators, the noble old age of St. Jerome and St. Peter, each is set vividly before us.

      The list contains no mystics and ascetics: life, and life abundant, is the keynote of Titian’s art. The abnormal finds no place in it. Health and happiness are to him interchangeable terms.

      Yet it must not be supposed that Titian’s delineation of life stopped short with the physical: he was besides a remarkable interpreter of the inner life. Though not as profound a psychologist as Leonardo or Lotto, he had at all times a just appreciation of character, and, on occasion, rose to a supreme touch in its interpretation. In such studies as the Flora, where he is interested chiefly in working out certain technical problems, he takes small pains to make anything more of his subject than a beautiful animal. The Man with the Glove stands at the other end of the scale. Here we have a personality so individual, and so possessing, as it were, that the portrait takes rank among the world’s masterpieces of psychic interpretation.

      In his best works Titian’s sense of the dramatic holds the golden mean between conventionality and sensationalism. In the group of sacred personages surrounding the Madonna and Child there is sufficient action to constitute a reason for their presence,—to relieve the figures of that artificial and purely spectacular character which they have in the earlier art,—yet the action is restrained and dignified as befits the occasion. The pose of both figures in the Christ of the Tribute Money is in the highest degree dramatic without being in any way theatrical. The tempered dignity of Titian’s dramatic power is also admirably seen in the Assumption of the Virgin. The apostles' action is full of passion, yet without violence; the buoyant motion of the Virgin is unmarred by any exaggeration.

      The same painting illustrates Titian’s magnificent mastery of composition. Perhaps the Pesaro Madonna alone of all his other works is worthy to be classed with it in this respect. It is impossible to conceive of anything better in composition than these two works. Not a line

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