

The sumptuous palette in the silks of the dresses and the flesh-tones of the faces reveals the influence of Eugen von Blaas' study of the techniques of Titian and the Venetian masters. Indeed the colourful troubadour costumes and the liveliness of the scene transport the viewer into Venice's Renaissance past, a reminder of the glorious history. Von Blaas' young people 'live their lives within the old walls of a still-important city, and become links in an apparently endless chain of generations who carry on the Venetian traditions and way of life' (Thomas Wassibauer, Eugen von Blaas, Hildesheim, 2005, p. 19).