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Ii.—Female Artists. By An Italian.
the paintings in the Salute at Venice , the Bacchanals of Titian ? the Miracle of the Slaveand other works by Tintorettoin
the school of S . Marco , to , shew how , when they so pleased , they , could excel in drawing . Neverthelessit must be acknowledged
, that in this department their works do not always evince the requisite diligence . Historians of art , differing in other matters , have agreed
to attribute their excellence in coloring to mechanical artifices . But the talent for colorlike the ear for music , is not to be
communicated by precept , it , is a natural gift . Color is , if we may so speak , a sentiment possessed by all the Venetians , from Bellini ,
down to the artists of our own day , whose works may be seen in the Exhibitions of the Academy of Venice . In pictures where the
drous design coloring is poor , which and the characterises execution faulty the works , we still of the see older the same masters won . -
In the epoch of which we are now treating , two women specially distinguished themselves in art ; Irene of Spilimbergoa pupil of
, Titian , and Marietta Tintoretto , the daughter and pupil of the great painter . Of Irene ' s works , there are still extant the Bacchanals in
Monte Albodo , and some small pictures from religious subjects , in the possession of the Maniago family . " The drawing is careless , but
the coloring , " writes Lanzi , "is worthy of the best age of art . We see the reflected rays of her great master ' s glory , the soft yet
rapid graduations of tint , the clear touches , the repeated applications of color , which give a veiled transparency to the tints ;
the _judic 4 oais _ grouping , the combined majesty and grace in the figures , which conl 5 titu _^ 8--SQmej _3 f the merits of Titi to an the . Irene illustrious was
a woman of the highest culture , and belonged family of the Lords of Spilimbergo . Her portrait was painted by Titianand her fame was celebrated by contemporary poets . She
died in , 1567 at the of eihteen . Of Mariett , a Tintorett age owe g are told by one who knew her at
twenty an eight lished years performer of age , , ( 23 on ) the that besides ianoforte being the beautiful luteand in other person in- ,
and struments accomp love seem , she also to have reached been hi centred gh eminence p in her in ; art , she . Her accomp , father anied 's pride him
everywhere , dressed as a boy ; he initiated her into the mysteries of art , not so much by precept , as by the living example of his own work .
Plow his pictures must have nourished and fertilised the imagination and taste of the susceptible girl—he whom Vasari calls the
most terrible genius that art has ever known , and on whom posterity has bestowed the title of " The Thunder of Art . " And Marietta
followed him faithfully , step by step . While he labored at his models from below , or studied the antique statues or the casts
from Michel Angelo , the coloring of Titian or the nude figure , she stood bhim in the feverish hour of creationwatched his first
sketch and y the progress of its execution , noted , his marvellous freedom in handling the brush , learnt the secret of giving
propor-( 23 ) llafFaello Borghini . —II Kiposo , Lib . _IY «
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/28/
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