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Updated: June 24, 2025
The waltz is their favorite dance, in which old and young join with the greatest avidity; it is not unusual to see parents and their grown-up children dancing in the same set in a public ball-room. Their taste in music is not for the sentimental; they prefer the light, lively tunes of the Virginian minstrels to the most impassioned strains of Bellini.
Now if the name of Giorgione be denied this "Nativity," to which of the followers of Bellini are we to assign it? for the work is clearly of Bellinesque stamp. The name of Catena has been proposed, but is now no longer seriously supported.
Behind comes the devil, with trident and horn, represented as a frightful and disgusting beast, which follows hot-foot after the lonely knight, who looks neither to right nor left, but persistently goes his way. Titian's teacher, Bellini, was still living, and he was one of Durer's greatest admirers. Especially did he believe that he could paint the finest hair of any artist in the world.
But I hope yet to make amends for the past.... I have no time to add more than that I desire sincere love to dear Annie, to whom please present for me the accompanying piece from my favorite Bellini, and the book on Etiquette, after it shall have passed the ordeal of a mother's examination, as I have not had time to read it myself." On March 4, he writes to his brother: "I have nothing new.
Notwithstanding many such little quarrels we liked each other well, and I may here note that when, in the following year, which was the year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and twenty-six, a little son was born to him, since grown to be a right famous painter, known as Giambellini which is to say Giovanni, or Hans, Bellini, I, Margery Schopper, stood his sponsor at the font.
"Oh!" deeply sighed the young girl. "No, I never read it. Tell me what it is. I must read it." "The rest is all talk very good talk; but I doubt whether it would interest you. He goes on to talk of a great many things -of the way Bellini spoke French, for example. He says it was bloodcurdling, horrible, cataclysmal.
Immediately adjoining the domicil of Madame de Bellini is a filthy little vegetable store, and on the opposite corner is an equally filthy Irish grocery, where are dispensed swill milk and poisoned whiskey.
"A company of knights in armour nice and shining," "three comely ladies in a green meadow," and so forth of the professional Italian story-teller the same Carpaccio, who was also, and much more than the more solemn Giovanni Bellini, the first Venetian to handle oil paints like Titian and Giorgione, painted the fairy tale of St.
Notwithstanding many such little quarrels we liked each other well, and I may here note that when, in the following year, which was the year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and twenty-six, a little son was born to him, since grown to be a right famous painter, known as Giambellini which is to say Giovanni, or Hans, Bellini, I, Margery Schopper, stood his sponsor at the font.
It is only when we hesitate to call our national treasure a Botticelli or a Bellini that we add the words "school of" to the name of the master who is fondly supposed to have inspired its author.
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