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GIORGKJN'E Cologne Museum ; Mart and Venus, Lou- ' vre ; Pietu, Sleeping Bacchus, Diana and Callisto, and others, Hermitage, St. Peters- burg ; G8 pictures in Madrid Museum. / 695 Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 508 ; Burckhardt, 7G8, etc.; Lavice, 41, etc. GIORGTONE, IL, horn at Castelfranco about 1477, died at Venice in 1511. Ve- netian school. Real name Giorgio Barba- relli ; pupil of Giovan- ni Bellini and fellow- pupil of Titian, who ii f forwards became his (Giorgione's) pupil. Of his life nothing is

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was passed at Venice and Castelfranco, in which latter place the house where he was born, now called Casa IVllizzari, contains remains of his decorative frescos. Giorgi- one decorated the exterior of many houses and palaces at Venice with frescos now ef- faced ; his oil paintings, owing to the short- ness of his life, are comparatively few. He treated subjects of the class introduced by Bellini, such as allegories, legendary epi- sodes, and bacchanals, in which figures are set off by landscape with the happiest effect, and painted many splendid portraits. His works are conspicuous for rich and brilliant colour, for breadth and nobility of style, and for a poetical, sensuous charm which fas- cinates and delights the beholder. Works : Ordeal of Moses, Judgment of Solomon, Uffizi, Florence ; Concert, Palazzo Pitti, ib. ; Family of Giorgione, Prince Giovanelli, ib.; Madonna with Saints (before 1504), Parish Church, Castelfrauco ; Christ bearing Cross, Casa Loschi, Vicenza ; Judgment of Solo- mon, Kingston-Lacy, near Wimbom, Eng- land ; Adoration of Magi, Leigh Court, near Bristol, England ; Nativity, Beaumont Collec- tion, London ; Knight in Armour, Story of Myrrha (Hamilton Palace sale, 1,350), Na- tional Gallery, ib. ; Chaldean Sages, Vienna Museum. Among works ascribed to him are : Rustic Concert, Holy Family, Louvre ; Assumption, Madrid Museum ; Entomb- ment, Monte di Pieta, Treviso ; Knight of Malta, Uffizi, Florence ; Nymph and Satyr, Finding of Moses, St. John Baptist, Portrait of a Lady, Palazzo Pitti, ib. ; Youth attacked by a Soldier, Vienna Museum ; Jacob and Rachel, Adoration of Shepherds, Horoscope, Dresden Gallery ; Finding of Moses, Brera, Milan ; Apollo and Daphne, Archiepiscopal

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II Giorno, Correggio, Parma Gallery.

Seminary, Venice ; Repose in Egypt, Prince of Palermo, Historical Society, New York. C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 119 ; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., ii. 485 ; Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 91 ; Lermolieff, 193 ; W. & W., ii. 721 ; Meyer,