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Updated: May 31, 2025
Then he rose from the bed, threw off his coat, which was clammy with dew, and lit a candle on the dressing-table. Its narrow flame lengthened, drooped, brightened, gleamed clearly. He glanced around him, unusually contented at the ruddiness of the low fire, the brass bedstead, the warm red curtains, the soft silveriness here and there.
A warm wind meets us and blows upon the strings so that they tremble gently and lament like a sleeping child whose soul is troubled by a dream of loneliness. "Look down!" cried my faery, turning her laughing little head toward me. Bathed in the glow of spring I see an endless carpet of woods and hills, fields and lakes spread out below me. The landscape gleams with a greenish silveriness.
Venetian art has nothing finer to show, whether for its interpretative qualities, or for the subtlety of its execution. Truly Giorgione has here foreshadowed Velasquez, whose silveriness of tone is curiously anticipated; yet the true Giorgionesque quality of magic is felt in a way that the impersonal Spaniard never realised.
It is not to be contested that for all the fine passages of colour and execution, the general tone is paler in its silveriness, less vibrant and effective on the whole, than in many of the masterpieces which have been mentioned in their turn.
In the paintings of Francois Clouet, for example, or rather of the Clouets for there was a whole family of them painters remarkable for their resistance to Italian influences, there is a silveriness of colour and a clearness of expression which distinguish them very definitely from their Flemish neighbours, Hemling or the Van Eycks. And this nicety is not less characteristic of old French poetry.
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