Word: titian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...north wall of the main upper gallery the photographs from portraits by Dutch and Flemish masters have been replaced by another series after portraits, and ideal heads, by the Venetian masters: Bellini, Giorzione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Among these are portraits of himself by each master, and others of various historical personages...
...Museum. The intrinsic value of the collection cannot be overestimated, as much as $1600 having been paid for a single print. There are about 20,000 engravings in all, including engravings from their own works by Albrecht, Durer, and Rembrandt, and many engraved portraits from originals by Raphael, Titian, Rubens and Van Dyck...
...photographs is made up of reproductions of the work of the Italian school of the sixteenth century, among those represented being Titian, Cogliari or Paul Veronese, Bellini, Robusti and Rosseo de Rossi...
Reynolds's greatness lies in the way he observed the colors of nature and imparted them to canvas. Somewhat deficient in draughtsmanship, often excelled by Romney in rendering the beauty of a woman's face, but combining the color of Titian, the grace of Corregio, the depth of Rembrandt, Sir Joshua Reynolds stands unrivalled and alone...
...wisdom is not the having learned any particular thing, but the result of many knowledge mutually acting upon and modifying each other. Michael Angelo chose for his emblem the figure of an old man in a child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am still learning. Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires...