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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judgment of Solomon" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Portrait of a Young Man, which, when Morelli wrote, belonged to Dr. Richter, and was afterwards acquired for the Berlin Gallery." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In it we have one of those rare portraits such as only Giorgione, and occasionally Titian, were capable of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Knight of Malta," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "La Galleria Crespi" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Portrait of a Lady in the Borghese Gallery at Rome, whose discovery by Morelli is so graphically described in a well-known passage.[38] And in truth it must be confessed that the authorship of this portrait is not at first sight quite so evident as in the other cases; neverthele...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Apollo and Daphne in the Seminario at Venice was probably a panel of a _cassone_; but although intended for so humble a place, it is instinct with rare poetic feeling and beauty. Unfortunately it is in such a bad state that little remains of the original work, and Giorgione's to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Apollo and Daphne it is an easy transition to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Venus, that great discovery which we owe to Morelli, and now universally recognised by modern critics. The one point on which Morelli did not, perhaps, lay sufficient stress, is the co-o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venus is the prototype of all other Venetian versions; it is in painting what the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aphrodite" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Venus, and even surpassing it in solemn grandeur of conception, is the" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madonna." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Judith is only a copy of a lost original, a belief that could apparently only be held by those who have never stood before the picture itself.[48] But even in the reproduction this" }, { "from": "human", "value": "J...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fête Champêtre of the Louvre, or, as it is often called, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Concert. This lovely" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pastoral Symphony (which appears to me a more suitable English title) is by no means universally regarded as ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Concert, Giorgio has become Giorgione; he is riper in experience and richer in feeling, and his art assumes a corresponding exuberance of style, his forms become larger, his execution grows freer. Nay, more, that strain of carelessness is not wanting which so commonly accompanie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three Ages of Man, in the Pitti at Florence--a damaged picture, but parts of which, as he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[51] The three figures are grouped naturally, and are probably portraits from life. The youth in the centre we have already met in the Kings...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BIRTH OF PARIS" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Birth of Paris, by Giorgione. This identification is fully confirmed by the engraving made by Th. von Kessel for the _Theatrum Pictorium_, which shows how these two figures are placed in the composition. Where, as in the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shepherd at Hampton Court, for the genuineness of which the critic would not absolutely vouch, as he had only seen it in a bad light. Perhaps no picture has been so strongly championed by an enthusiastic writer as has been this" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shepherd...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Concert in the Pitti Gallery, a work which was regarded by Crowe and Cavalcaselle not only as a genuine example of Giorgione's art, but as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "they go on," }, { "from": "human", "value": "[63] Morelli, on the contrary, holds:" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "L'homme au gant, an undoubted early work of Titian, is singularly close in character and style, as was first pointed out by Mr. Claude Phillips,[66] and it was this general reminiscence, more than points of detail in an admittedly imperfect work that seemingly induced Morelli to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Adoration of the Magi, now in the National Gallery (No. 1160), is attributed to the master himself; by Morelli it was assigned to Catena.[69] This brilliant little panel is admittedly by the same hand that painted the Beaumont" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Adora...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Giorgionesque phase is to be found than the sumptuous" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Warrior adoring the Infant Christ, which hangs close by, whilst his delicate little" }, { "from": "human", "value": "S. Jerome in his Study, also in the same room, challe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Christ bearing the Cross (in S. Rocco), and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Storm calmed by S. Mark (in the Academy). The question whether or no we are to accept the former of these picture...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Age of Gold," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Deucalion and Pyrrha," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jove hurling Thunderbolts at the Giants," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Python," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Apollo and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Diligence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venus" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judith" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "born about 1490, and still living in 1545. Vasari states that he actually worked under Giorgione. Signed portraits by him are in the Brera, at Munich, and Naples. Palma Vecchio also deserves serious consideration as possible author of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Birth of Adonis," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Venus and Adonis embracing, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Adonis killed by the Boar." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fantasiestücke, corresponding somewhat with the modern" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Landscape with Figures." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christ bearing the Cross and the two little pictures in the Uffizi are direct evidence of this, and these, therefore, must be placed quite early in his career. We should not be far wrong in dating them 1493-5. Carpaccio's influence is also apparent, as we have already noticed, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adrastus and Hypsipyle must also be a youthful production prior to 1500, and in the direction of portraiture we have the Berlin" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Young Man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madonna, the first important undertaking of which we have some record. Tradition connects the painting of this altar-piece with an event of the year 1504, the death of the young Matteo Costanzo, whose family, so it is said, commissioned Giorgione to paint a memorial altar-piece,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And he goes on:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the time when Titian began to adopt the manner of Giorgione, being then not more than eighteen, he took the portrait of a gentleman of the Barberigo family who was his friend, and this was considered very beautiful, t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ariosto the portrait of one of the Barberigo family said to have been painted by Titian in the manner of Giorgione." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thoroughly Giorgionesque, says Mr. Claude Phillips, in his _Life of Titian_," }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young Man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ariosto" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Portrait of a Lady, known as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "La Schiavona, in the collection of Signor Crespi in Milan. In his opinion these two works are intimately related to one another, and of them he significantly writes thus:" }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lady" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miracle of the True Cross," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Madonna and Child and Saints." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Une grande dame italienne est devant nous, éclatante de santé et de magnificence, énergique, débordante, pleine d'une chaude sympathie, source de vie et de joie pour tous ceux qui l'entourent, et cependant réfléchie, pénétrante, un peu ironique bien qu'indulgente." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Concert, a judgment in which I fully concur. Dr. Bode[99] labels it" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Art des Giorgione. Finally, Mr. Berenson, with rare insight proclaimed the conception and the spirit of the picture to be Giorgione's.[100] But he asserts that the exec...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Miracle of the True Cross" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Portrait of a Poet, attributed to Palma Vecchio; and the catalogue continues:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This portrait of an unknown personage was formerly ascribed to Titian, and supposed to represent Ariosto; it has long since been recognised as a fine work by ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ritratti et Elogie di Capitani illustri. Rome, 1635." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Columnensium Procerum" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Giorgionesque" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Portrait of a Gentleman," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Portrait of an Unknown Man, in the possession of the Hon. Mrs Meynell-Ingram at Temple Newsam in Yorkshire. A small and ill-executed print of it was published in the _Magazine of Art_, April 1893, where it was attributed to Titian. Its Giorgionesque character is apparent at firs...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Physician Parma, in the Vienna Gallery. Crowe and Cavalcaselle thus describe it:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This masterly portrait is one of the noblest creations of its kind, finished with a delicacy quite surprising, and modelled with the finest insight into th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Orpheus and Eurydice, in the gallery at Bergamo, a splendid little panel, probably, like the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Apollo and Daphne in the Seminario at Venice, intended as a decorative piece of applied art. Although bearing Giorgione's name by tradition, mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leda and the Swan, the other a mythological subject, where a woman is seated holding a child, and a man, also seated, holds flowers. The latter recalls one of the figures in the National Gallery" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Epiphany." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unknown Subject, in the National Gallery (No. 1173), a picture which, like so many others, has recently been taken from Giorgione, its author, and vaguely put down to his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "School." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Epiphany, wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Golden Age, where, like Plato's philosopher-king, the seer all-wise and all-powerful holds sway, before whom the arts and sciences do homage; in this earthly paradise even strange animals live in happy harmony, and all is peace. Such a theme would well have suited Giorgione'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venus disarming Cupid, of the Wallace collection, we have, in my opinion, the wreck of a once splendid Giorgione. In the recent re-arrangement of the Gallery, this picture, which used to hang in an upstairs room, and was practically unknown, has been hung prominently on the line...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venus and Adonis of the National Gallery (No. 1123), from which, had not an artificial standard of excellence been falsely raised, Giorgione's name would never have been removed. I am happily not the first to call attention to the propriety of the old attribution, for Sir Edward...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "subjects to that of sacred art--that is, to the consideration of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Madonnas," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Holy Families, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Santa Conversazione pictures, other than those alr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Giorgionesque elements in this supposed Titian." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the depth, strength, and richness of the colour-chord, in the atmospheric spaciousness and charm of the landscape background, in the breadth of the draperies, it is already, says Mr. Cl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madonna and Child by Titian exists, except the little picture in Mr. Mond's collection, painted quite in the artist's old age. Titian invariably paints" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Madonna and Saints, or a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Holy Family, s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gipsy Madonna." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madonna, from which, indeed, it varies chiefly in the pose of the Child (whose left leg here sticks straight out), whilst the landscape is seen on the left side, and there are no tree-trunks. I cannot find that any writer has made allusion to this little gem, which hangs high up...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judith at St. Petersburg, the Louvre" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Concert, the Beaumont" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Adoration of the Shepherds (to name only three examples where the drawing is strange), cannot consistently object to admit the Glasg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "where action and graphic representation was urgently needed. How little to his taste! How uncongenial the task! The case is exactly paralleled by the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Judgment of Solomon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christ and the Adulteress," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madonna and Saints of the Louvre, which persistently bears Giorgione's name, in spite of modern negative criticism, is marked by a lurid splendour of colour and a certain rough grandeur of expression, well calculated to jar with any preconceived notion of Giorgionesque sobriety ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Giorgionesque" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Two Musicians, in the Glasgow Gallery (recently transferred to Campagnola), and a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sta. Justina" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "St. George slaying the Dragon. Judg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aeneas and Evander (Vienna), the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Judith (St. Petersburg), the Madrid" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Madonna and Saints," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Caterina Cornare" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adulteress," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christ bearing the Cross" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judgment of Solomon and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Adulteress before Christ, the only two" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and he would have given us more sympathetic interpretations of the fair sex than those which Titian has left us. The so-called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Portrait of the Physician Parma" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His pictures are the perfect reflex of the Renaissance at its height." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pietà for S. Peter's. Leonardo, a man of forty-three, had not completed his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cenacolo, and the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mona Lisa would not be created for another five or six years. Giorgione's" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[143] This is the secret of his overwhelming influence on succeeding painters in Venice,--not, indeed, on his direct pupil Sebastiano del Piombo, and on his friend and associate Titian (who may fairly be called his pupil), but on such different natures as Lotto, Palma, Bonifazio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Genre subjects, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Landscape with figures, as we should say nowadays, found in him their earliest exponent. Before him artists had, indeed, painted figures with a landscape background, but the perfect blend of Nature and human nature w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venus, if she arose, would appear of strange proportions; but expressiveness is enhanced by the long flowing contours of the body, so suggestive of repose. We may notice also the emphasis obtained by parallelism; for example, the line of the left arm of the" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lady" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mantua xxv. oct MDX." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THADEUS ALBANUS." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "corresponds with the actual Beaumont and Vienna" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nativities, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Adoration of the Shepherds," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Io Zorzon de Castelfrancho di mia man scrissi la presente in Venetia li 13 febrar 1508." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nineteenth Century" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pietà" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Io tician di Cador Dpñtore" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Being born at Cadore of honourable parents, he was sent when a child of nine years old by his father to Venice to the house of his father's brother ... in order that he might be put under some proper master to study painting; his father having perceived in him even at that tende...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not long afterwards he was commissioned to paint a large picture for the High Altar of the Church of the Frati Minori, where Titian, quite a young man _(pur giovanetto)_, painted in oil the Virgin ascending to Heaven.... This was the first public work which he painted in oil, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "when the second edition of the _Lives_ was written, and as from the explicit nature of the evidence this must have been between 1566, when he visited Venice, and January 1568, when his book was published, it follows that Titian was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From Venice, the 1st of August, 1571." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From Venice, the 27th of February, 1576." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Titian's appeal to the benevolence of the King of Spain looks like that of a garrulous old gentleman proud of his longevity, but hoping still to live for many years. [160] Exactly! The occasion c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Io tician di Cador Dpñtore" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did Titian live to be Ninety-Nine Years Old?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Consul (1567)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "85" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mori ultimamente di vecchiezza (!not, then, of the plague?), essendo d'età d'anni 98 o 99, l'anno 1576." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he is only trying to make out that his hero, here as everywhere, was a most unusual person (the whole dialogue is a glorification of the master). For the same reason he makes the following remark, which we can absolutely prove to be false:--the Assumption (he says)" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and he goes on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "L'anno poi 1507.... If it had not been that one of these pictures, once in the possession of Giovanni D'Anna, had been preserved (now in the Vienna Gallery), and that it bears in a conspicuous place the date 1543, it wou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life of Salviati, to the year 1523, and in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life of Michael Angelo to 1525. When he speaks of himself in the same passage in the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Life of Salviati as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dipintore instead of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Maestro. I am not aware whether in this respect definite regulations or customs were usual in Venice.[166] At any rate, the painter is still described in official documents as late as 1518 as" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "85 Titian himself in 1571" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "According to some people who knew him, Titian was about ninety years old, though he did not show it. Now, if Titian was really about ninety in the year 1564, he will have lived to the age of one hundred and two, a feat of longevity of which no one has ever accused him! Apart, th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sacred and Profane Love (so-called) in the Borghese Gallery; the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "S. Mark of the Salute; the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Concert in the Pitti; the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tribute Money at Dresden; the"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(vide _N. Italian Painting_, ii. 119, 120). Unfortunately, they took the evidence of the letter as final, but finding themselves chronologically in difficulties, they shrewdly remark in their _Titian_, i. 38, note:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The writers of these ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Among the thousands of signatures of painters which I have seen I have never come across the signature _Maestro_. Of course, someone else can describe a painter as Master; he himself always subscribes himself _pittor, pictor_, or _depentor_." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "El dicho Ticiano besa pies y manos de V.M., y suplica umilmente a V.M. mande le sea pagado lo que le ha corrido de las pensiones de que V.M. le tiene echo merced en Milan y en esa corte, y la trata de Napoles, y con los 85 años de su edad servira a V.M. hasta la muerte." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Birth of Paris." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gipsy Madonna," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Physician Parma," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A David (which, according to common report, is a portrait of the master himself) with long locks, reaching to the shoulders, as was the custom of that time, and the colouring is so fresh and animating that the face appears to be rather real than painted; the breast is covered wi...