plagues cause fear, suffering and anguish/ part 5
fiction
edward w pritchard
Would Giorgione have been the greatest artist of all time if he hadn't died of plague in 1510 at the age of 33?
Giorgione painted the first Landscape painting in Western Art. He also painted the first genre paintings. Giorgione's paintings are arresting to the viewer; there is a unique greatness to his few surviving works.
What if Giorgione had another thirty years of productive work to produce new styles of painting for the modern viewer to inspect. Would Giorgione be a candidate for the title of the greatest painter of all time if he hadn't been unceremoniously carted off to a mass grave in a wobbly wooden wagon by the citizens of Sienna Italy one day in 1510.
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