feeling listless

Art Meme Alert!

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

I am both proud and embarrassed to say that the nearest book on hand was The National Gallery Companion Gallery. I'd taken it out last night to look up a favorite passage. And the fifth sentence on the 23rd page is:

"By graduating the blue of the background, more intense towards the top and lighter at the bottom, Bellini evokes the sky, in contrast with Baldovinetti in the 'Portrait of the Lady in Yellow'."

I always try and keep fine art close by. The above is part of a description of Giovanni Bellini's The Doge Leonardo Loredan.