
Excerpt from Memoirs and Essays: Illustrative of Art, Literature and Social Morals And so it is with Titian's pictures: they make children of us again; they surprise us with the feeling of a presence; they melt us with a familiar sympathy; we rejoice in them as we do in music, in spring-tide, in the fresh air and morning breath of owers. It is long before we can bring the intellect to bear on them, for the faculties of judgment and comparison are lost in the perception of beauty, in admiration, in faith unbounded. In them we acknowledge that touch of nature which makes the And where but at Venice could Titian have lived and worked? I know not well how or why it is, but color. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Page Count:
194
Publication Date:
2018-01-17
Publisher:
Fb&c Limited
ISBN-10:
0332893545
ISBN-13:
9780332893549
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