Summing up all these influences, he has left us the Giorgionesque; the art of choosing a moment in which the subject and the elements of colour and design are so perfectly fused and blended that we have no need to ask for any more articulate story; a moment into which all the significance, the fulness of existence has condensed itself, so that we are conscious of the very essence of life. Those idylls of beings wrapped into an ideal dreamland by music and the sound of water and the beauty of wood and mountain and velvet sward, need all our conscious apprehension of life if we are to drink in their full fascination. The dream of the Lotos-eaters can only come with force to those who can contrast it adequately with the experience, the complication, and the thousand distractions of an over-civilised world. Rest and relaxation, the power of the deeply tinted eventide, or of the fresh morning light, and the calm that drinks in the sensations they are able to afford, are among the precious things of life. The instinct upon which Giorgione's work rests is the satisfying of the feeling as well as the thinking faculty, the life of the heart, as compared to the life of the intellect, the solution of life's problems by love instead of by thought. It was the Eastern ideal, and its positive expression is conveyed by means of colour, deep, restful, satisfying, fused and controlled by chiaroscuro rather than by form. PRINCIPAL WORKS Berlin. Portrait of a Man. Buda-Pesth. Portrait of a Man. Castelfranco. Duomo: Madonna with SS. Francis and Liberale. Dresden. Sleeping Venus. Florence. Uffizi: Trial of Moses (E.); Judgment of Solomon (E.); Knight of Malta. Hampton Court. A Shepherd. Madrid. Madonna with SS. Roch and Anthony of Padua. Paris. Fête Champêtre. Rome. Villa Borghese: Portrait of a Lady. Venice. Seminario: Apollo and Daphne. Palazzo Giovanelli: Gipsy and Soldier. San Rocco: Christ bearing Cross. Boston. Mrs. Gardner: Christ bearing Cross. London. Sketch of a Knight; Adoration of Shepherds. Viscount Allendale: Adoration of Shepherds. Vienna. Evander showing Æneas the Future Site of Rome. CHAPTER XVI THE GIORGIONESQUE