VENICE.- Owing to the quality of his painting, his highly original development, the similarity with the works of other artists close to him or with contemporaries, the Venetian Giacomo Favretto (1849-1887) is one of the most important masters of the Italian Nineteenth century. A true innovator” of the Venetian school during the second half of the century, he both revived and modernised the unique aspects of great Veneto tradition from Longhi to Tiepolo that had been abandoned in the first half of the Nineteenth century in favour of paintings of history and landscape. In his short but intense career, Favretto was to become a hugely successful painter. He died prematurely in 1887, leaving unfinished on his easel Modern Stroll that might have represented a possible Venetian form of the most modern international trends although it was not until 1895 that the Biennale was to be