The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-10

IA shameless flesh; Jupiter, in
the form of a cloud seducing 10.
Jupiter, in the form of a Satyr,
seducing Antiope; Danae disrobed
by curious and frolicsome angels,
Love asleep on Venus breast.
What voluptuous ecstasy/is here,
and yet innocence!-forms too
beautiful for safety, and faces as
conscience clear as children's;
simple, contented faces, that have
never felt the sense of sin, nor the
burden of thought; they would have
agreed with the young Italian who
asked Goethe: ''Perche pensa?
Pensandos' invecchia." why do
you think? Thinking makes us so
old"
Correggio knew neither the cause
nor the consequence; nature spared
him the curse of consciousness and
the indignity Of age. He felt too
much to think, and produced as the
spirit moved him; not without labor,
but, as one may see, never without
inspiration, which is an inward devil
that makes labor sweeter than any
rest.
And then suddenly, one of those
feyers which a jealous nature sends
out of the marshes to punish Venice
for its beauty, caught him up and
snatched him away, aged 40, still in
the prime of life and art. But we
do not mourn him disconsolate; we
feel that no generosity of time oculd
have made him more perfect than
he was; we are content with what
death has left us Of him, for we
know that not all years will suffice
us to understand and absorb him.
TITO pass from Giorgione and Cor
Il reggie, who were never older
than youth, to Titan, who was
born year earlier than Giorgione
and yet outlived him ytwo genera
tions, Titan, who was born seven
teen years before Correggio, and
outlived him forty-two years,-this
is to pass from adolescence to man
hood, from lyric poetry to tragic
drama and serene philosophy. Mich
elangelo was magnificent with his
80 years; but Titan with 80 GAIT
1576-one must say of him what
Napoleon said on seeing Goethe:
VOLTA I'm homme"
Tiziano Vecelli, as his country
calls him, was born at Galore, on
the road that unites Italy with Ty-
rol. The landscape and The float
ing colorS of the sky that sur
rounded him in his youth helped to
make him the greatest landscape
painter, and the greatest colorist,
among all the artists of his mex
haustible race, In his early pictures
Gas in the Gypsy Madonna the
mountains play a considerable role;
in his old age they will return to
his painting, and he will cleanse
himself of the passions and bitter
ness that broke down Angelo by
contemplating the imperturbable
stability of the hills.
Titan went to Venice when still
a child, and at an early age knew
the happiness of following unim-
peded his natural vocation. He
studied first under Gentle, after
ward under Giovanni, Bellini; then
he passed to the studio of Giorgione,
but his precious skill displeased the
master, if we may believe the Cos
sips of the time, and for while
Titan cooled his heels in Padua.
In 1913 he received from the
authorities of Venice an invita-
ton to come and superintend all
the pictorial work required by them
for the adornment of the city; and
from then on he never ceased to
prosper. He signalized his return
to Venice by painting for the
Church of the F'rari one of his
masterpieces, the Assumption of
the Virgin"
It is a perfect example of COM
position; almost all the lines of
vision or motion in the picture meet
in the fine full figure of the
Madonna, borne upward naturally,
as by some inward power. while
thousand rosy children hail her.
He fell in with the spirit of
Venice, and for a while lived
riotously, playing Shakespeare to
Pietro Aretino's Kit Marlowe.
Aretino anticipated the morals of
the Stuart Restoration in literature
and life, loving as loosely as if he
had reached a nlarriageless heaven,
and writing prose and poetry as if