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Percival Heron did not choose to announce his coming to his friends. He travelled furiously, as it was his fashion to travel when he went abroad, and arrived at the little village, on the outskirts of which stood the Villa Venturi, so late in the evening that he preferred to take a bed at the inn, and sup there, rather than disturb his own people until morning. He enjoyed the night at the inn.
But how could a poor man travel in Italy, and rent the Villa Venturi, say nothing of Strathleckie?" "He did not rent it. They were my guests." "Your guests? And what are they now, then?" "My guests still." Brian rose to his feet. "Then you are a rich woman?" "Yes." "It is you, perhaps, who have paid me for teaching these boys?"
The marchioness, thus happily relieved from her fears, set off for Ferrara on the 4th of May, and proceeded to Venice a week later, having doubled the number of her retinue, and strained every nerve to present an appearance which should not offer too marked a contrast with Beatrice's regal splendours. Porrò, op. cit., p. 330. A. Venturi in A. S. L., xii. 227. Archivio Storico Lombardo, xvii. 368.
It may be so, but if one reads also the other experts Sir Sidney Colvin, Morelli, Justi, the older Venturi, Mr. Berenson, Mr. Charles Ricketts, Mr. Herbert Cook one is simply in a whirl. For all differ. Mr. Cook, for example, is lyrically rapturous about the two Padua panels, of which more anon, and their authenticity; Mr.
The other screen is more popular because the lower picture on it yet again shows us Leda and her uncomfortable paramour that favourite mythological legend. The little pictures are not equal to the larger ones, and No. 50 is by far the best, but all are beautiful, and all are exotics here. Do you suppose, however, that Signor Lionello Venturi will allow Giorgione to have painted a stroke to them?
They had remained in Italy for the first three months of his engagement, and, during that time, he had not lived in the Villa Venturi, but simply given his lessons and taken his departure. Sometimes he breakfasted or lunched with the family party, but at such times no business affairs were discussed. And Elizabeth had made it a special request that Mr.
That this was by Bellini is more than probable, for the different versions are clearly by different painters of his school. By far the finest is the example which Crowe and Cavalcaselle and Morelli unhesitatingly ascribe to the young Giorgione; this version is, however, considered by Signor Venturi inferior to the one now belonging to Count Lanskeronski in Vienna.
I am indebted, therefore, to Signor Venturi for the lead, although I have the satisfaction of feeling that independent study of my own had already brought me to the same conclusion. Of course, all modern writers have recognised the "Giorgionesque" elements in this supposed Titian.
"I shall treat of this subject," he says, in a passage published by Venturi, "but I shall first set forth certain experiments; it being my principle to cite experience first, and then to demonstrate why bodies are constrained to act in such or such a manner. This is the method to be observed in investigating phenomena of Nature.
The other important additions made by Signor Venturi in his recent volume, La Galleria Crespi, are alluded to in loco, further on. I am delighted to find some of my own views anticipated in a wholly independent fashion.
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