s a woman of the lowest class. On tlie otherhand, when compared with Botticellis Venus in theUffizi, and with Correggios Danae in the Borghesegallery at Rome, this Venus of Giorgione shows a ten-dency to realism, although in the highest and noblest senseof the word. Giorgione was by nature more… … THE VENETIANS. * 223 joyous than Gorreggio. Tlie aim of the latter in representingthe Danae was totally diifereut to that of the Venetianmaster in dealing with the sleeping Tenns. Sensuous delighthas probably never been represented in so highly spiritualiseda form as by Gorreggio. We see this in…
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