Sentences with phrase «venetian oil painters»

But his «painterly» style — with its emphasis on the visible mark and texture of paint - as - matter — resonated most powerfully with the Venetian oil painters, such as Giorgione and Titian.

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The English painter Walter Sickert, in his memoir of Degas, reports various opinions of the master's — that one should use oil paint as if it were pastel, or that «the art of painting was so to surround a patch of, say, Venetian red, that it appeared to be a patch of vermilion.»