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Title: High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: John F. Talmage
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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n the dis-tance to the right of the center the water seems to connect with a pale,greenish-blue sky, with suggestions of pinkish and faint purple cloudsnear the horizon. The spectator looks across the canal, toward theleft, to the mass of the white and pink Church of San Giorgio Mag-giore, with its imposing facade and massive dome, overtopped at theextreme left by the campanile—all in strong sunshine, which causestheir reflections to brighten the dull canal. On the church plaza arepeople in varicolored costumes, and the canal is dotted with gondolasand light sailing-boats which cause white ripples in the water. The Palladia!! Campanile of San Giorgio, which appears in this painting by Guardi,tumbled in 1771, breaking up a service and killing a monk, and also injuring two others. Thetower was rebuilt later by Benedetto Buratti, and in its present form has the conical topwith which visitors arc familiar, resembling that of The Campanile. Collection, of Eudoxie, Co/nitcss of Lindsay. *
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No. 17THE CONCERT BY PIETER DE HOOGHE No. 17PIETEK DE HOOGHE Dutch 1632—1681THE CONCERT <7^° Height, £5% inches; length, ^d1/^ inches In a severely plain interior, whose walls and beamed ceiling give abackground of olive and mahogany-brown, a group of friends arestruggling with some music. A man in a broad-brimmed hat, broadwhite collar and pale-red coat sits at a harpsichord, his back to anopen casement window, striking desultorily some notes with one handand holding a music book open on its rack with the other. A youngwoman in a pale-green skirt and brilliant golden-yellow overskirtand bodice, low about bust and shoulders, sits in front of the instru-ment with a music book on her lap, gazing dejectedly at the flooras though discouraged or out of spirits. Another young woman inan ermine-trimmed cloak behind her looks over her shoulder at themusic, with a languidly smiling and half-interested expression, as shekeys up a lute. An older woman is entering the room with a wine-glas

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