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The Titians that hang in the gallery of my mind are other than this. A Madonna and Child and a rollicking baby at Vienna: our own "Bacchus and Ariadne"; the Louvre "Man with a Glove": these are among them; but the "Assumption" is not there. Tintoretto's great picture of the "Miracle of S. Mark" was painted between 1544 and 1548, before he was thirty.
Recognized it instantly, by recollection of the plate in "Rees's Cyclopedia," as Herschel's great telescope. Oxford. Saw only its outside. I knew no one there, and no one knew me. Blenheim, the Titians best remembered of its objects on exhibition. The great Derby day of the Epsom races. Went to the race with a coach-load of friends and acquaintances.
To lend additional lustre to the specimens of the Venetian school, the collection starts off with a superb Giorgione; Giorgione, the painter who taught Titian his magic colour secrets; the painter whose works are, with a few exceptions, ascribed to other men more is the pity! Anthony and St. Roch. It is easy to begin with the Titians, one of which is the famous Bacchanal.
"Very interesting," said Lothair, "but what I want are pearls. That necklace which you have shown me is like the necklace of a doll. I want pearls, such as you see them in Italian pictures Titians and Giorgiones such as a Queen of Cyprus would wear. I want ropes of pearls." "Ah!" said Mr. Ruby, "I know what your lordship means. Lady Bideford had something of that kind.
"Getting rather near one, don't you think?" he said. "No closer than France and Turkey were only a short while ago," I answered. "Moreover, in this case, the Powers would have a word to say." "Yes, they are rather ready to speak out on such occasions; but, unless I'm much mistaken, if the Titians and the Valerians get their armies moving it will take more than talk from the Powers to stop them."
Be that as it may, I lived, at least I believed that I lived, in Venice. I have never been able to discover rightly how much of illusion and how much of reality there was in this fantastic adventure. We dwelt in a great palace on the Canaleio, filled with frescoes and statues, and containing two Titians in the noblest style of the great master, which were hung in Clarimonde's chamber.
The meeting with little Bilham took place, by easy arrangement, in the great gallery of the Louvre; and when, standing with his fellow visitor before one of the splendid Titians the overwhelming portrait of the young man with the strangely-shaped glove and the blue-grey eyes he turned to see the third member of their party advance from the end of the waxed and gilded vista, he had a sense of having at last taken hold.
The Puritan Commonwealth Parliament ordered the pictures of Charles I. to be sold, but such of them as were indecent to be burnt; accordingly half a dozen Titians were solemnly burnt and the nucleus of a great national gallery destroyed.
He was to make himself agreeable to the King, and to one greater than the King the man behind the throne the Duke of Lerma; and to several fair ladies as well. The pictures were copies of the masters "Titians," "Raphaellos," "Tintorettos" and "Leonardos." They were copied with great fidelity, even to the signature and private marks of the original artist.
They all boast special excellences, but the Prado collection contains pictures by certain masters, Titian, Rubens, Correggio, and others, that cannot be seen elsewhere. Setting aside Velasquez and the Spanish school, not in Venice, Florence, or London are there Titians of such quality and in such quantity as in Madrid.
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