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Artist J.M.W. Turner, RA. The Engravings. Perhaps the most
famous English
Romantic landscape artist. Turner products many engravings and was very
hands-on in there progress to printings.
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The Birdcage
A SCENE FROM BOCCACCIO. |
The birdcage is visible enough—but why a scene from Boccaccio? No
doubt it is intended to represent that gay and noble party, full of wit
but deficient in all noble feeling, whom Boccaccio represents as
withdrawing to a castle to enjoy themselves and tell questionable
stories, while their less fortunate fellow-creatures were obliged to
stay in the city and die of the plague. But if this be allowed we must
ask, “Why the Birdcage ?“ as no story of the many stories in the
Decameron is known by that title. But Turner was not particular where
mere facts were concerned, and he has not been particular enough in this
picture about such facts as the way in. which human members are joined
together, or the general proportion borne by one to the other, to make
this picture interesting, except as a specimen of what an exceedingly
bad picture he could paint if he tried. In style it is more like Watteau
than any other painter. There - is a general air of festivity about the
scene, and the castle and its glades would make the place a very
appropriate one for an al fresco entertainment, but there is not much.
more to be said for the picture. |
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