Miscellaneous Fast Facts, Last Updated:09/05/2010 His portraits were the first to be painted in the "modernmanner", and are full of dignity, truth of characterization,simplicity, and a silvery quality unsurpassed even by Velazquez.The precocious and versatile young man was the first to paintlandscapes with figures, the first to paint genre — movablepictures in their own frames with no devotional, allegorical, orhistorical purpose — and the first whose colours possessedthat ardent, glowing, and melting intensity which was so soon totypify the work of all the Venetian School. Giorgione was the firstto discard detail and substitute breadth and boldness in thetreatment of nature and architecture; and he was the first torecognize that the painter's chief aim is decorative effect. Henever subordinated line and colour to architecture, nor an artisticeffect to a sentimental presentation. |