Identifier: wandererinlondon00luca (find matches)
Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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the mountains in the distance !), thenew portrait of Aretino. Of Titian, the glorious, the gor-geous, one cannot have too much; but I should hesitateto say the same of Paolo Veronese, who when he is paint-ing his vast panoramic efforts always suggests the con-tributor to the Salon carried out to his highest power.His Saint Helena (reproduced opposite page 156) is tome one of the most beautiful of pictures, but I grudge someof his square yards. If one had to name the most charming pictures in thisroom I should pick out Giovanni BcUinis Infant Christand the Virgin, No. 599, on one of the screens (a reproduc-tion of which will be found on the opposite page) and Gior-giones Knight in Armour, No. 269, on another screen.Bellini is always interesting, always the consummatecraftsman, always intelligent and distinguished. His finestpicture here is, I think, Christs Agony in the Garden,No. 726, which is indescribably wonderful in colour andalmost escapes the Venetian worldhness; his most modern
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^^ A < 3 •J paai H s HH MORONI 99 painting, which might almost have proceeded from aLondon or Parisian studio to-day, is his St. Dominic,No. 1440, with its decorative ingenuity; but his mostcharming picture is undoubtedly this Virgin and Child.The Virgins face is a little commonplace but very human:the Infant Christ is the sleepiest baby I ever saw: thelandscape and fleeting fine-weather clouds could not bemore smiling and delightful. The work is adorably gayand masterly in every touch. I have however found manymothers who prefer his No. 280; but they are wrong.The little Giorgione (or Barbarelli, as the catalogue callshim) once hung on the wall of Samuel Rogers, the poet, inSt. Jamess Place. It is one of the pictures one wouldcertainly hasten to carry off if London fell into the handsof an enemy and looting set in. One could carry it easily. To two other painters I would draw attention in thisroom: both portrait painters, Moroni and Moretto. Mo-roni is well represented, and I ha

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