Yet Titian is
the greater man, for he is "the highest and completest expression of his
own age."[147]
Nevertheless, in that narrower sphere of the great painters, who
proclaimed the glad tidings of Liberty when the Spirit of Man awoke from
Mediaevalism, may we not add yet a fifth voice to the four-part harmony
of Raphael, Correggio, Leonardo, and Michel Angelo, the voice of
Giorgione, the wondrous youth, "the George of Georges," who heralded the
Renaissance of which we are the heirs?
NOTES:
[138] In the Church of San Rocco, Venice, and in Mrs. Gardner's
Collection in America.
[139] Keats died at the age of twenty-five; Schubert was thirty-one;
Giorgione thirty-three.
[140] The ruined condition of the Borghese "Lady" prevents any just
appreciation of the interpretative qualities.
[141] _Venetian Painters_, p. 30.
[142] Leonardo, 1452-1519; Michel Angelo, 1475-1564; Giorgione,
1477-1510; Raphael, 1483-1520; Correggio, 1494-1534. Correggio, Raphael,
and Giorgione died at the ages of forty, thirty-seven, and thirty-three
years respectively. Those whom the gods love die young!
[143] Berenson: _Venetian Painters_, p. 29. I should prefer to
substitute "ripening" for "ripened."
[144] Fry: _Giovanni Bellini_, p. 44.
[145] In S. Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice. It dates from 1513.
[146] Mary Logan: _Guide to the Italian Pictures at Hampton Court_, p.
13.
[147] Berenson: _Venetian Painters_, p.
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