, 1881-03-27
CARPACCIO.


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Temple Bar
tourists know anything at all about, and still
fewer 1,ayi, seen. For "Nnrray,, does not
mantion r. and tl,nuoh +hara ;e = not;co of n
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overlooked, for it is not l'onored with even
the single asterisk BY which the reader is
piven tn understand TINT the thing is worth
tak;nr eoma trouh1.. r. soa Vet # that nict.
s"ntn so ~, ~ s ~ .,A,s
writer OF whom England is justly proud-has
said: .It is the best picture in the world.
49,. know no other that can be compared
with it.'
We observed that it was comparatively
Nas incIosed in a giIt-frame and that it was
a 0c7lrc painting, Next, We knew that it lad
been done in ten1per:l land not in oil), the
material used by most il not all. painters
{l$-144l) being the first, it is ALLEGED. to ill-
froduce oil-pai1lttng-and the MATERIAL let it
be noted. to Whicii. Mr.. Ruskin is Of the
opinion, the best painters Of the future will
certainly return, For the sake of the general
aeadeT we satf that hat f fh
coIors with size, or whites Of eggs, OF some
such cll1tinors Substance. and n0f With oil.
What is the subiect of The picture? "Two
Venetian Ladies with Their Pcts,-a simple
EfnHV
they are re- portraits Of mother and daughter.
But here let me transcribe my brief, rough
notes made on the sDot.-rouEh. indeed. tboy
are, but they will have at least the merit Of
freshness. The lady in foreground, in Grim
son dress, very yhandso!ne-full.p plump figure,
broidered with lace. ciit spanelesNsllperbiy
done. A. small hui iapdog she is tllaying
with. with left hand. and with q wand in her
right hand is amusing another and larger
dress. loose uneirtiied.-aiso with low body.
Is 1eanino. her rjuht n r,u ftha hand hnld;nr -
handkerchief co1nettishiyl IN low s;ona
hainstrade. the jeft i,enr n1aced IN her
@ nage is seen at % one Of 1T the aTcGcs of
ths halusfr9da Nneer ny hin, is = "11 naacooi9 =
Then :, l;zar,l and - tnrtn;sa ara crawlinr
on the floor before the criImson-rohed lodv.
three doves are on the ton % Of the balustrade.
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is most he,i,tff1,liv shaneH ond irimitafiyy y
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