{Italian High Renaissance –}{Giorgone [continued]}[28th April 1991]

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*‘In the latter,** Giorgione reveals the Venetian love of textures, for he carefully and faithfully renders the appearance of flesh and fabric, of wood, stone and foliage to make it almost palpable. The soft, diffuse light that bathes the scene is typically Venetian. The nature of the landscape depicted with its hills stretching into the distance, together with the soft light that removes all harsh or sharp contours in the landscape as in the figures, creates a dreamy, pastoral mood. This use of landscape to create a mood and the use of figures in the landscape to reflect or intensify that mood is a Venetian innovation characteristic of almost all the Venetian painting of the 16^th century and of great importance to the future development of Baroque art.’

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*[Source & ms paragraph continues from last previous ts journal entry]

**[‘...The moody, dreamy landscape of the “Pastoral Concert” (c[irca]1510[ce]; Louvre); see last previous ts journal entry]

***– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:348]

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