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"You saw them both?" "Of course, I looked him up at once. They have an old place on the Giudecca, you know. I spent a week with them. He's still working on the opera, it doesn't get on very fast, I gather. He played me some of the music, it's great, parts of it. And he has written other things." "I know all that," Isabelle interrupted impatiently. "But is he happy?"
In front stretches the lagoon, tinted with a pale light from the east, and beyond this pallid mirror shines Venice a long low broken line, touched with the softest roseate flush. Ere we reach the Giudecca on our homeward way, sunset has faded. The western skies have clad themselves in green, barred with dark fire-rimmed clouds.
There were stars in the water as in the sky, and the city was hidden behind the Giudecca, but the great campanile, showing pale and mysterious in the lights of the Piazza, sent its white shaft far down into the water of the lagoon on the hither side of the dark Giudecca. As the shadowy gondola, with its tiny light, came stealing over the star-strewn water, May recognized the solitary oarsman.
Every year, on the third Sunday in July, a bridge of boats crosses the Grand Canal at the Campo S. Zobenigo, and then from the Zattere it crosses the Giudecca canal to this church. That day and night the island is en fête. Originally these bridges were constructed in order that the Doges might attend a solemn service; but to-day the occasion is chiefly one of high spirits.
All these examples of the most successful but least inspired of modern artists exemplify his patient, concentrated, meticulous style. By an ingenious fiction that the installation is only provisional, six characteristic Venetian pictures by the veteran, Ziem, have been retained in the collection. 136, is, however, wrongly named, and should read Scene from the Giudecca.
But the people looked on gloomy and unappeased, filled with a horror which the funeral pomp did little to quiet; they did not follow as the cortège descended the steps of the Piazzetta to embark in the waiting gondolas that had been lavishly provided by the Republic. Santissima Maria! they wanted to get back to their own quarters on the Giudecca and breathe a little sunshine!
He went out and called a gondola. "Where to?" the gondolier asked. "Anywhere!" They went up and down, and across to the Giudecca, and down again, and turned the point of the Public Garden, and the gondolier was about returning, when for the first time his passenger spoke: "Go round by San Pietro and inside by San Daniele. Go where it is dark."
Gregory at Venice"; at Turin, in 1880, a fine view of the "Canal of the Giudecca," and "Canal of S. Giorgio"; at the National Exposition in Milan, 1881, "Sunset" and a marine view; at Rome, in 1883, "Excursion on the Lagoon." Still others of the same general character are: "A Gondola," "At St. Mark's," "Grand Canal," "Morning at Sea," etc.
In front stretches the lagoon, tinted with a pale light from the east, and beyond this pallid mirror shines Venice a long low broken line, touched with the softest roseate flush. Ere we reach the Giudecca on our homeward way, sunset has faded. The western skies have clad themselves in green, barred with dark fire-rimmed clouds.
Engaging a couple of boats, and placing a singer in each, the brothers were rowed down the Canale Giudecca skirted many of the small islands, studding the lagoons; and proceeded towards the Adriatic.
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