Leighton and the Venetian Method, Part II

by Matthew Innis |

Leighton’s Cimabue’s Celebrated Madonna is Carried in Procession Through the Streets of Florence(shown here in detail), was completed in Rome when the artist was just 25.  Not only was the paintinga celebration of Florentine art, it was a statement of the public prestige an artist might attain.⁶Leighton visited several cities in Italy, including Venice, before…

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