Excerpt from Giorgione, a New Study of His Art as a Landscape Painter Vedelago is only four miles distant from Castelfranco along the Treviso road, so that it really matters little whether our artist was born in the big village or the little town, the same flat plain and type of scenery being common to both. Bassano is the nearest important place to them, being some eight or nine miles away. Giorgione came to Venice when still quite young, but, as I shall Show, already a formed artist. He may have served his apprenticeship at Bassano before going to the great city of the lagoons and entering the workshop of Giovanni Bellini, rather as an assistant than as an apprentice. Save for probable visits to Castelfranco he seems to have spent the whole of his' independent working life at Venice, and there in the year 1510 he died of the plague at the early age of thirty-three. We may imagine him settled down about the year 1494, at which time he would have had as companions among Bellini's helpers, Bissolo, Pierino Santo, Lattanzio da Rimini, and Marco Marziale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.