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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    Almost all galleries and collections contain specimens of the works of this splendid and popular painter ; but the finest are in the churches at Venice, in the Louvre, and in the Dresden Gallery, where there are [fourteen] of his pictures. In our National Gallery we may now boast of possessing Bassano (by himself) one of his grandest and most celebrated works, “ The Family of Darius at the feet of Alexander,” once the glory of the Pisani Palace at Venice, and which was in the possession ot the family from the hour it was painted till it passed into our possession. It is easy to criticise the anachronisms m _ this picture ; but Paul Veronese did not think about anachronisms, and its excellence is such that, in the words of a great critic, “in its presence we forget for a time all other plot ue ions in painting.” We have also a fine picture of the Consecration ol