Identifier: dictionaryofpain02brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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inality of his genius soon madeitself felt The earliest works that we have frombis hand are the Trial of Moses, and the Judgmentof Solomon in the UfBzi, probably painted when ■he was seventeen or eigliteen. These small panelawere evidently executed as companion pieces forGiovanni Bellinis Allegory, and, like that curiouslittle picture, once adorned the Medici villa atPoggio Imperiale, but the romantic treatment ofthe Bible stories, the brilliant colour and slendergrace of the forms already reveal Giorgiones strongindividuality. The same bold conception andlyrical fancy meet us in another early work, the Christ bearing the Cross formerly at Casa Loschiin Vicenza, now in Mr. Gardners collection atBoston. This Christ with the delicately-modelledfeatures and dreamy air is quite unlike the commontraditional representations of the subject,and haunteus with the power of its strange and mysteriouspathos. Another version of the theme, a sadly-injured, but deeply impressive figure of Christ c
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I o o c PAINTERS AND EXGHAVERS. dra^p«<) »loi\(; by a Jrw on liis way to Citlvanr,wliuli Vaiulvrk odpird in lii« Cliatswortli Sketofi-buuk, Miiiv Btill Ik) bopii ill tlitrout;lil niorv noUi iTuwim to tlie foiifniternity,Vaaari tella ua, tJmn Uiori^ione or l^tiau earneddnrii>K tlieir wliol« lifetime I The (freat altar-jiieiewhich iii<.ri;ione naintej in tlie linit yeant uf thenew century fur the Custan»ii cliajiel in the cluirchof Castelfrauio, niarka a new ata^e in hi8 artisticdevelopment. Here we itee tiie Mudunna raisedhigh above the altar, with Ieraian haiipiif^adraping her thrune, and tlie f^allunt Buldier-aaiiitLibc-rale, with liia banner in his hand, stniidiug bythe aide of St, Francig, at her feet. The whulocunceptiun is marked by a fietnlom and nuveltywhioh could unly liuve been inspiied by a geniusuf the m»8t daring type, and in spite of its dttiiia.i,cdstate, tliis famous w

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