[Illustration: Art Repro Co.

Madonna & Child with two Saints.

From the painting by Giorgione at Castelfranco.]




GIORGIONE

BY

HERBERT COOK, M.A., F.S.A.

BARRISTER-AT-LAW



1904




"Born half-way between the mountains and the sea--that young George
of Castelfranco--of the Brave Castle: Stout George they called him,
George of Georges, so goodly a boy he was--Giorgione."

(RUSKIN: _Modern Painters_, vol. V. pt. IX. ch. IX.)