Conway, Agnes Ethel, Conway, Martin, Sir · London : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 125
ther at a momentwhen they were beautifully doing nothing, he didso. But he liked still more to paint ideal scenesfrom his own fancy, where young people sit ineasy attitudes upon the grass, conversing for aninstant in the intervals of the music they make uponpipes and guitar. He was the first… … The Golden Age.From the picture by Giorgione, in the National Gallery, London. THE RENAISSANCE IN VENICE 97 completely subordinated the figures. In this littleGolden Age the landscape is quiet in tone,tinged with melancholy, romantic, to suit themood of the figures. Its colouring, though rich,is…
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