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Somehow, although the picture in no way oversteps the bounds of decency, and cannot be objected to even by the most over-scrupulous, there is latent in it a jarring note of unrefinement in the presentment of exuberant youth and beauty which we do not find in the more avowedly sensuous Venus of the Tribuna.
Among the great number of pictures in this Tribuna, I was most charmed with the Venus by Titian, which has a sweetness of expression and tenderness of colouring, not to be described. In this apartment, they reckon three hundred pieces, the greatest part by the best masters, particularly by Raphael, in the three manners by which he distinguished himself at different periods of his life.
It is not, indeed, by any means certain that we are justified in seriously criticising as a Venus the great picture of the Tribuna.
Baron Sonnino accordingly declined to accord the permission asked for, and consented only to allow a large consignment of "correspondence" to be sent on. Cf. L'Idea Nazionale, March 7, 1915; Tribuna, April 1, 1915. Later on Turkish officers were sent to Libya to egg on the Arabs to harass the Italians there.
John the Baptist in the Desert" Journey to Augsburg "Venus and Cupid" of the Tribuna "Venus with the Organ Player" of Madrid The Altar-piece of Serravalle "Charles V. at the Battle of Mühlberg" "Prometheus Bound" and companion pictures Second Journey to Augsburg Portraits of Philip of Spain The so-called "Marqués del Vasto" at Cassel The "St.
Stylistic characteristics point to the conclusion that the great Venus of the Tribuna, the so-called Bella di Tiziano, and the Girl in the Fur Cloak to take only undoubted originals belong to much the same stage of Titian's practice as the companion portraits at the Uffizi.
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