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Man. Berlin Gallery
Portrait of a Man. Buda-Pesth Gallery
Portrait of a Lady. Borghese Gallery, Rome
Apollo and Daphne. Seminario, Venice
Venus. Dresden Gallery
Judith. Hermitage Gallery, St. Petersburg
Pastoral Symphony. Louvre, Paris
The Three Ages. Pitti Gallery

Nymph and Satyr. Pitti Gallery
Madonna, with SS. Roch and Francis. Prado, Madrid
The Birth of Paris--Copy of a portion. Buda-Pesth Gallery
Shepherd Boy. Hampton Court
Portrait of a Man. (By Torbido) Padua Gallery
The Concert. Pitti Gallery
The Adoration of the Magi (or Epiphany). National Gallery
Christ bearing the Cross. Collection of Duke of Devonshire,
Chatsworth. (Sketch by Vandyck, after the original by Giorgione in S.
Rocco, Venice)
Mythological Scenes. Two Cassone pieces Padua Gallery
Portrait of "Ariosto". Collection of the Earl of Darnley, Cobham Hall
Portrait of Caterina Cornaro. Collection of Signor Crespi, Milan
Bust of Caterina Cornaro. Pourtalès Collection, Berlin
Portrait of "A Poet". National Gallery
Portrait of a Man. Querini-Stampalia Gallery, Venice
Portrait of a Man. _Collection of the Hon. Mrs. Meynell-Ingram,
Temple Newsam_.
Portrait of "Parma, the Physician". Vienna Gallery
Orpheus and Eurydice. Bergamo Gallery
The Golden Age (?). National Gallery

Venus and Adonis. National Gallery
Holy Family. Collection of Mr. Robert Benson, London
The "Gipsy" Madonna. Vienna Gallery
Madonna. Collection of Mr. Robert Benson, London
The Adulteress before Christ. Glasgow Gallery
Madonna and Saints. Louvre, Paris

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GIORGIONE
CHAPTER I
GIORGIONE'S LIFE
Apart from tradition, very few ascertained facts are known to us as to
Giorgione's life. The date of his birth is conjectural, there being but
Vasari's unsupported testimony that he died in his thirty-fourth year.
Now we know from unimpeachable sources that his death happened in
October-November 1510,[1] so that, assuming Vasari's statement to be
correct, Giorgione will have been born in 1477.[2]
The question of his birthplace and origin has been in great dispute.
Without going into the evidence at length, we may accept with some
degree of certainty the results at which recent German research has
arrived.[3] Dr. Gronau's conclusion is that Giorgione was the son (or
grandson) of a certain Giovanni, called Giorgione of Castelfranco, who
came originally from the village of Vedelago in the march of Treviso.
This Giovanni was living at Castelfranco, of which he was a citizen, in
1460, and there, probably, Giorgione his son (or grandson) was born
some seventeen years later.
The tradition that the artist was a natural son of one of the great
Barbarella family, and that in consequence he was called Barbarelli, is
now shown to be false. This cognomen is first found in 1648, in
Ridolfi's book, to which, in 1697, the picturesque addition was made
that his mother was a peasant girl of Vedelago.[4] None of the earlier
writers or contemporary documents