Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll.

  • Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Moroni (by himself) where besides. From 1540 to 1590 the Venetians were the only painters worthy the name in Italy. This arose from the elementary principle early infused into the \ enetian artists the principle of looking to Nature, and imitating her, instead of imitating others and one another. Thus, as every man who looks to Nature looks at her through his own eyes, a certain degree of individuality was retained even in the decline of the art. There were some who tried to look at Nature in the same point of view as Titian, and these are generally included under the denomination of the u School of Titian,” though in fact he had no school properly so called. Moroni [Giovanni Battista] was a portrait painter who in some of his heads equalled Titian. We have in Englanc