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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV THE BERGAMASK PERIOD I5I8-I528 The ten years in Lotto's career to which we are 1518now going to devote attention, were the years in 1538. which he was in the fullness of his manhood--when, as his works of this period show, he began to feel himself complete master of his style and to take pleasure in it. He had freed himself from all unsympathetic influences, and his own life during these years must have run smoothly and happily. It is probable, too, that his analytical, humorous, and bizarre temperament felt itself at home and with friends among people like the Bergamasks, who, if we may trust the accounts of Bandello1 and other contemporary writers, seem to have been endowed with plenty of caprice and humour, and to have been, at any rate, so far interested in the analysis of character as to have acquired a reputation for it. It may also have been well for Lotto that he spent the greater part of this fruitful period of his life among provincials, probably sympathetic, of whom, as a native of the Inclita Dominante, as the subject towns soon began to call Venice, he is not likely to have stood in awe. Being without a rival, the more cultivated Bergamasks could scarcely have helped employing him when they 1 Novelle, part i, xxxiv. 15*- wished to show off their wealth in ornamenting churches, 1538, and their stylishness in having their portraits done by a painter from the capital. Being alone, he could impose his own tastes on his public, as he could not have done in Venice, where there was a choice of painters for all kinds of cultivated amateurs. Lotto, therefore, in these years expanded his genius in every direction, enjoying the benefits of perfect independence, but, we must also add, suffering from the disadvantages of not...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lorenzo Lotto; An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism. To get started finding Lorenzo Lotto; An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV THE BERGAMASK PERIOD I5I8-I528 The ten years in Lotto's career to which we are 1518now going to devote attention, were the years in 1538. which he was in the fullness of his manhood--when, as his works of this period show, he began to feel himself complete master of his style and to take pleasure in it. He had freed himself from all unsympathetic influences, and his own life during these years must have run smoothly and happily. It is probable, too, that his analytical, humorous, and bizarre temperament felt itself at home and with friends among people like the Bergamasks, who, if we may trust the accounts of Bandello1 and other contemporary writers, seem to have been endowed with plenty of caprice and humour, and to have been, at any rate, so far interested in the analysis of character as to have acquired a reputation for it. It may also have been well for Lotto that he spent the greater part of this fruitful period of his life among provincials, probably sympathetic, of whom, as a native of the Inclita Dominante, as the subject towns soon began to call Venice, he is not likely to have stood in awe. Being without a rival, the more cultivated Bergamasks could scarcely have helped employing him when they 1 Novelle, part i, xxxiv. 15*- wished to show off their wealth in ornamenting churches, 1538, and their stylishness in having their portraits done by a painter from the capital. Being alone, he could impose his own tastes on his public, as he could not have done in Venice, where there was a choice of painters for all kinds of cultivated amateurs. Lotto, therefore, in these years expanded his genius in every direction, enjoying the benefits of perfect independence, but, we must also add, suffering from the disadvantages of not...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lorenzo Lotto; An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism. To get started finding Lorenzo Lotto; An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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