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ROCCO, SCUOLA DI SAN. 363
but observe also the general sublimity obtained by the mountainous lines of the drapery of the recumbent figure, dependent
for its dignity upon these forms alone, as the face is more than
half hidden, and what is seen of it expressionless.
34. The Paschal Feast. I name this picture by the title given
in the guide-books ; it represents merely five persons watching
the increase of a small fire lighted on a table or altar in the
midst of them. It is only because they have all staves in their
hands that one may conjecture this fire to be that kindled to
consume the Paschal offering. The effect is of course a fire
light; and, like all mere fire lights that I have ever seen,
totally devoid of interest.
35. Elisha feeding the People. I again guess at the subject:
the picture only represents a figure casting down a number of
loaves before a multitude ; but, as Elisha has not elsewhere
occurred, I suppose that these must be the barley loaves brought
from Baalshalisha. In conception and manner of painting,
this picture and the last, together with the others above-
mentioned, in comparison with the "Elijah at Cherith," may
be generally described as " dregs of Tintoret:" they are tired,
dead, dragged out upon the canvas apparently in the heavy-
hearted state which a man falls into when he is both jaded
with toil and sick of the work he is employed upon. They
are not hastily painted ; on the contrary, finished with considerably more care than several of the works upon the walls ;
but those, as, for instance, the "Agony in the Garden," are
hurried sketches with the man's whole heart in them, while
these pictures are exhausted fulfilments of an appointed task.
Whether they were really amongst the last painted, or whether
the painter had fallen ill at some intermediate time, I cannot
say; but we shall find him again in his utmost strength in the
room Avhich we last enter.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 3 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000393 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | ROCCO, SCUOLA DI SAN. 363 but observe also the general sublimity obtained by the mountainous lines of the drapery of the recumbent figure, dependent for its dignity upon these forms alone, as the face is more than half hidden, and what is seen of it expressionless. 34. The Paschal Feast. I name this picture by the title given in the guide-books ; it represents merely five persons watching the increase of a small fire lighted on a table or altar in the midst of them. It is only because they have all staves in their hands that one may conjecture this fire to be that kindled to consume the Paschal offering. The effect is of course a fire light; and, like all mere fire lights that I have ever seen, totally devoid of interest. 35. Elisha feeding the People. I again guess at the subject: the picture only represents a figure casting down a number of loaves before a multitude ; but, as Elisha has not elsewhere occurred, I suppose that these must be the barley loaves brought from Baalshalisha. In conception and manner of painting, this picture and the last, together with the others above- mentioned, in comparison with the "Elijah at Cherith," may be generally described as " dregs of Tintoret:" they are tired, dead, dragged out upon the canvas apparently in the heavy- hearted state which a man falls into when he is both jaded with toil and sick of the work he is employed upon. They are not hastily painted ; on the contrary, finished with considerably more care than several of the works upon the walls ; but those, as, for instance, the "Agony in the Garden," are hurried sketches with the man's whole heart in them, while these pictures are exhausted fulfilments of an appointed task. Whether they were really amongst the last painted, or whether the painter had fallen ill at some intermediate time, I cannot say; but we shall find him again in his utmost strength in the room Avhich we last enter. |
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