Titian

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. North-east of Venice.?Titian's House in Bin Grande; his Homo Life; his Children.?Portraits.?Death of the Duke of Mantua.? Portraits of Mendozza and Martinengo.?Charles the Fifth and Titian at Milan; the Allocution, and the Nativity.?Titian receives a Pension on the Milan Treasury.?His quarrel...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. North-east of Venice.?Titian's House in Bin Grande; his Homo Life; his Children.?Portraits.?Death of the Duke of Mantua.? Portraits of Mendozza and Martinengo.?Charles the Fifth and Titian at Milan; the Allocution, and the Nativity.?Titian receives a Pension on the Milan Treasury.?His quarrel with the Monks of San Spirito.?Carnival and the Company of the Calza. ?Aretino sends for Vasari, who receives employment at Venice. ?Portraits of Catherine Cornaro and Doge Lando?Portraits of Titian by himself; of Titian and Zuccato; of Titian and Lavinia. ?Votive Picture of the Dogo.? The Strozzi, and Titian's likeness of R. Strozzi's daughter.?Ceilings of San Spirito.? Descent of the Holy Spirit.?Titian compared with Raphael and Michael- angelo.?Visit to Cadoro.?Alessandro Vitelli. For many years subsequent to the settlement of Titian in Venice, the north-eastern limit of the city was sparsely built over, and the pleasure-seekers, who rowed in their gondolas to the villas of Murano, issued from the more intricate canals by Sant' Apostoli, San Canciano or San Giovanni e Paolo, to find themselves skirting a shore on which green fields were varied with patches of morass and garden enclosures. The long and dreary wharves, which now go by the name of the Fondamenta nuova, were not in existence, and persons living beyond Santa Maria de' Miracoli might be looked upon as country residents rather than townspeople. There was much to attract the lover of the picturesque in a dwelling on the northern outskirts of the city. There was the free bank of the lagoon, withti view towards Murano; at right angles to which the hills of Ceneda rose beyond the lowland of Mestre, and showed through their gaps the Alps of Cadore. Here too was fresh vegetation, herbage, and trees, somethi...