[A] beautiful specimen of book-making is Mr. Gordon Bottomley's "Vision of Giorgione," which has all the dainty features we have learned to expect in a Mosher book. There is scarcely another painter of equal rank with Giorgione of whom we know so little. Vasari mentions his fondness for music and his love for a lady. This furnishes Mr. Bottomley the inspiration for his sequence of three poems (rather than dramas) called "A Concert of Giorgione," "A Pastoral of Giorgione," and "The Lady of Giorgione." The poet has caught the ...
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[A] beautiful specimen of book-making is Mr. Gordon Bottomley's "Vision of Giorgione," which has all the dainty features we have learned to expect in a Mosher book. There is scarcely another painter of equal rank with Giorgione of whom we know so little. Vasari mentions his fondness for music and his love for a lady. This furnishes Mr. Bottomley the inspiration for his sequence of three poems (rather than dramas) called "A Concert of Giorgione," "A Pastoral of Giorgione," and "The Lady of Giorgione." The poet has caught the Venetian atmosphere very perfectly in his charming verse; perhaps he has also caught the secret of the painter's method in a passage such as this: "I pose models no more, But find adorable ladies with such fair minds They may be trusted to express themselves Graciously, perfectly in perfect gowns; I ask them to come here quite half in secret, Wearing the gowns they think for quiet joy; Sometimes I play them music of subtle discords, Or tell them casual fragmentary stories About the sudden things women do Which no man understands. And I watch, I paint and watch; they think they are but broidering, Or wondering, or resting from their fate." -"The Dial," Vol. 49
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