[A Wanderer in Venice by E.V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Venice CHAPTER XVIII 15/18
Bellini's simplicity allies him to Giotto traditions; but there was no simplicity about Giorgione, Titian, and Tintoretto.
They were sophisticated, and the two last were also the painters of a wealthy and commanding Republic.
One can believe that Bellini, wherever he was, even in the Doges' Palace, carried a little enclosed portion of the Kingdom of God within him: but one does not think of those others in that way.
He makes his Madonnas so much more real and protective too.
Note the strong large hands which hold the Child in his every picture. Titian's fine martial challenging John the Baptist is the great picture of the next room, No.XIX.Here also are good but not transcendent portraits by Titian, Tintoretto, and Lotto, and the Battle of Lepanto, with heavenly interference, by Veronese. Finally, we come to the room set apart for Titian's charming conception of "The Presentation of the Virgin," which fills all one wall of it.
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