The Louvre: Fifty Plates in ColourBrockwell, Maurice W.
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The Louvre: Fifty Plates in Colour
Brockwell, Maurice W.
Musée du Louvre
From the studio of Bonifazio issued Jacopo Bassano (1510?-1592), whose
_Vintage_ (No. 1428) shows his predilection for introducing animals and
kneeling peasants into genre pictures, the treatment of which is apt
to be rugged. This did not prevent his at times painting striking and
vigorous portraits. The Louvre contains a good example of this branch
of his art in the _Portrait of Giovanni da Bologna_ (No. 1429), which
is at present not exhibited. _The Animals entering the Ark_ (No. 1423),
_Moses striking the Rock_ (No. 1424), _Cana of Galilee_ (No. 1425),
_Christ bearing His Cross_ (No. 1426), and the _Descent from the Cross_
(No. 1427) are also credited to him in the Catalogue.
Leandro Bassano (1558-1623), his son, is represented in the La Caze
collection by an _Adoration of the Magi_ (No. 1430) and a _Rustic
Labour_ (No. 1431).
The vigorous, ambitious and late Venetian painter Tintoretto
(1518-1594), who painted portrait-groups, religious subjects,
and mythological compositions on a large scale, and brought his
achievements to completion with extraordinary rapidity, is not
adequately represented in this Gallery, in which, however, no fewer
than eleven works pass under his name. His _Susanna and the Elders_
(No. 1464) testifies to the increasing frequency with which painters
or their patrons at that period preferred the representation of
sensational incidents from the Apocrypha. The subject is unattractive,
but the picture, which is in a very dirty state, is wonderfully painted.
The _Paradise_ (No. 1465) is but a preliminary sketch for the colossal
painting, measuring 84 ft. × 34 ft.,—the largest oil-painting by an
old master in existence,—which Tintoretto painted for the end wall of
the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doge’s Palace at Venice. The
_Portrait of a Man holding a Handkerchief in his Hand_ (No. 1467)
reveals his great power as a portrait painter.
The _Portrait of Pietro Mocenigo_ (No. 1470), signed PETRUS MOCENIO
SENATOR, and the _Portrait of a Venetian Senator_ (No. 1471), inscribed
ANNO ÆTATIS LVII MVII IACOMO TENTORETO . F, are among the pictures of
the La Caze collection.
In Room XV., which is given up to self-portraits by artists, hangs
a picture which passes as an authentic _Portrait of Tintoretto_
(No. 1466) by himself. It is inscribed JACOBVS TENTORETVS PICT^{OR}
VENET^{IVS} and IPSIVS. F.
PAOLO VERONESE
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