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Giorgione

其他書名	Pt.47, Vol.4
出版	Bates and Guild, 1903
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=E9s1AQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Giorgione's works attained in his own day such great and wide-spread popularity that no painter had any chance of success unless he could furnish pictures in the same style, and contemporary writers, at a loss for terms in which to express their admiration for his works, were driven to coin words which should convey some idea of the fullness of life and beauty that breathed from his canvases. But just when the young painter had reached the apogee of his fame, when all Venice, realizing his genius, was enthusiastically sounding his praises, and the future seemed to hold for him nothing but continued happiness and success, a terrible plague broke out in Venice, carrying off twenty thousand of her citizens in the course of a year, and among its victims was Giorgione, who, stricken by the disease, died after a brief illness. - p. 25-26.