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School. The latter was also noted for being a man of very fine character.

In the final lecture of the series, Giorgione and Titian, the greatest
figures of the Venetian School, were discussed. They were both pupils of
Giovanni Bellini and intimate friends. Giorgione’s pictures are distin-
guished by the unusually beautiful faces of his Madonnas.

In Titian’s pictures the landscape background is properly woven into
the picture, so that the third dimension of depth is more evident. He was
the first to use thickened oil paints, the medium used by all modern
painters. His “Bacchus and Ariadne” is the most perfect of his paintings,
and one of the supreme examples of Venetian Art. In this he has made
use of every device known to the painter—such as contrast of light and
shade, beautiful lines and colouring, and massed figures.

Titian lived to the age of ninety-nine years, and is to be remembered
as the real founder of modern art.

Reverie

Never

In my whole existence
Have I seen

A sight so pitiful

As one I saw last year

At noon

During the Design Exam.
It was the figure of a man
Alone

Seated on a sketching stool
In the middle of the Life Room.
His head was resting

On his hand,

Bowed low

In desperate contemplation.
It was Fred Amess

Still waiting

Por an IDEA.

I Thank You.

MarGareT WILLIAMS.