Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art
By Shearjashub Spooner
The works of Titian, though many of his most significant productions have been destroyed by terrible conflagrations at Venice and Madrid, are numerous, scattered throughout Europe, in all the royal collections and the most celebrated public galleries, particularly at Venice, Rome, Bologna, Milan, Florence, Vienna, Dresden, Paris, London, and Madrid.
The most numerous are portraits, Madonnas, Magdalens, Bacchanals, Venuses, and other mythological subjects, some incredibly voluptuous. Two of his grandest and most celebrated works are The Last Supper in the Escurial and Christ Crowned with Thorns at Milan. It is said that the works of Titian, to be appreciated, should be seen in Venice or Madrid, as many claimed to be genuine elsewhere are of very doubtful authenticity.
Genre: Non-Fiction | Art
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Shearjashub Spooner
Shearjashub Spooner (December 3, 1809 – March 14, 1859) was an American physician and writer.
Biography
Born in Brandon, Vermont, he graduated as a physician in Middlebury in 1830, and in New York City in 1835, he became a dentist in New York. He retired in 1858 and died in Plainfield, New Jersey.
Guide to Sound Teeth (New York, 1836), Art of Manufacturing, Mineral Teeth (1837), Treatise on Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry (1838), Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (3 volumes, 1853), Spooner, Shearjashub (1873), A Biographical History of the Fine Arts, Being Memoirs of the Lives and Works of Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects. Philadelphia: G. Gebbie. p. 527. (1853; new edition, two volumes, 1865)
Shearjashub Spooner
