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

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(Late 15^th C[entury] Venice)

‘Giorgione learnt from Bellini and then went beyond his master to bring to Venetian painting a treatment of landscape that can only be compared to pastoral poetry. In his brief career (all his extant paintings date from the last five years of his life) this highly inventive young artist taught his contemporaries and successors how to exploit the medium of oil paint the illusion of textures, light and air in their paintings. His earliest known painting, the “Madonna and Child with SS. Francis and Liberale” (c[irca]1504[ce]; Cathedral, Castelfranco, Italy), derives from the style of the mature Giovanni Bellini. In no more than a few years’ time he passed through the dramatic landscape with storm clouds of “The Tempest” (c[irca] 1505[ce]; Accademia, Venice; Plate 10)* to the moody, dreamy landscape of the “Pastoral Concert” (c[irca]1510[ce]; Louvre).

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** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:348]

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