Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

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HAMPTON COURT
the " Shepherd's Familv "); and not far from these
may be ranked the fine Pordenone (a man in a red
girdle, No. 92) and the rather clumsy Bernardino
Licino family (No. 104). Paris Bordone too can be
studied here in his love of beauty untouched by high
thought (No. 118).
Tintoretto, the great,single-minded, powerful, proud
genius who painted the Nine Muses (No. 77), shows
here his mastery of colour and of form. They are
playing musical instruments, turning to each other
in delight, and in poses which show the master's
supremacy in modelling. The centre of the picture is
in a flood of light. "Queen Esther before Ahasuerus"
(No. 69), stately, vivid, hangs in the same room. Portraits,
too, from his hand are here, Nos. 120, 78, 91
— all fine examples of his power of rich and impressive
presentation.
Nor must we forget Bassano, in whose work the
gallery is rich, or that graceful and decorative artist,
Andrea Schiavone, whose charming "Tobias and the
Angel " isNo. 8 8; andhis large " Judgment ofMidas"
(No. 175) in the King's Drawing-Room. Palma the
younger, too, has the " Expulsion of Heresy," from
King Charles's collection (No. 159) — angels at the
word of three doctors of the Church driving downwards
the heresiarchs — and the " Prometheus chained
to a Rock." Minor pictures crowd round us, all
deserving some attention, such as the number of
portraits by or related to A. Solano; the twelve
scenes, so fresh and brilliant, from the story of