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The sudden act, the rapid transition of thought, the passing expression this he arrests with that vivacity which Vasari has attributed to him, il fuoco Giorgionesco, as he terms it.
Yet here, if anywhere, we get that fuoco Giorgionesco of which Vasari speaks, that intensity of feeling, rendered with a vivacity and power to which the artist could only have attained in his latest days.
Il fuoco Giorgionesco the Giorgionesque fire was the phrase invented to describe the new wonder he brought into painting. A comparison of Venetian art before Giorgione and after shows instantly how this flame kindled. Not only did Giorgione give artists a liberty they had never enjoyed before, but he enriched their palettes. His colours burned and glowed.
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