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Title: The Venetian School of Painting
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Phillipps, Evelyn March, d. 1915
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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rt of composi-tion. It is built up with uprights ; pillars areformed by the groups of trees and figures, cutboldly across by the horizontal line of the bridge,but the figures themselves are put in withoutany attention to subject, though an unconscioushumorist has discovered in them the domesticcircle of the painter. The man in Venetian dressis there to assist the left-hand columnar group,placed at* the edge of the picture after themanner of Leonardo. The woman and childlighten the mass of foliage on the right andmake a beautiful pattern. The white town ofCastelfranco sings against the threatening sky,the winds bluster through the space, the treesshiver with the coming storm. Here and thereleafy boughs are struck in with a slight, crisptouch, in which we can follow readily thepainters quick impression. The Knight of Malta is a grand magis-terial figure, majestic, yet full of ardent warmthlying behind the grave, indifferent nobility. Theface is bisected with shadow, in the way which 136
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GIORGIONE Michelangelo and Andrea del Sarto affected, andthe cone-shaped head with parted hair is ofthe type which seems particularly to havepleased the painter. To Giorgione, too, belongsthe honour of having created a Venus as pure asthe Aphrodite of Cnidos and as beautiful as acourtesan of Titian. The death of Giorgione from plague in 1511is registered by all the oldest authorities. Hisbody was conveyed to Castelfranco by membersof the Barbarelli family and buried in the Churchof San Liberale. In 1638 an epitaph was placedover his tomb by Matteo and Ercole Barbarelli. Allowing that he was hardly more thantwenty when his new manner began to gain afollowing, he had only some twelve years inwhich to establish his deep and lasting influence.We divine that he was a man of strong person-ality, such a one as warms and stimulates hiscompanions. Even his nickname tells us some-thing,—Great George, the Chief, the George ofGeorges,—it seems to express him as a leader.And we have no lack of

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