GIORGIONE.:

GIORGIO BARBARELLI, generally known by the appellation of Giorgione, from the loftiness of his figure and gait, was born at Castel-franco, in Friuli, in the year 1477. He at first studied music, in which art he excelled; but soon after, conceiving a violent inclination to painting, he entered into the school of Giovanni Bellini, whom he surpassed. He owes his success to the study of nature, and to the observations he made on the pictures of Leonardo da Vinci. The colouring of Giorgione was greatly admired by the amateurs; and Titian himself, who had been his fellow scholar, under Bellini, was desirous of benefiting by his lessons; but Giorgione, judging that his principal aim was to seize his manner, refused to comply with his desires.

Giorgione lived several years with his parents, and in his native city. He painted for the church of Castelfranco, a St. Francis, and a St. George. He also executed several portraits of uncommon beauty. Upon his return to Venice, he painted the façade of his house, in order to give the Venetians a taste for this sort of decoration. His idea was so favorably received, that he was immediately engaged to paint the interior of several palaces, where he represented the various subjects of the metamorphoses and loves of the gods.

At the very time when Giorgione applied himself, with the greatest assiduity, to the study of his art, he died at

Venice, at the early age of $2. The cause of his death is uncertain: some authors suppose that he was carried off by the plague: others assert that he fell a martyr to grief, occasioned by the infidelity of his mistress.

Ample outlines, bold foreshortening, dignity and vivacity of aspect and attitude, breadth of drapery, and richness of accompaniment, observes M. Fuseli, marked the style of Giorgione. Vasari pretends, that Giorgione owes his chiaro-scuro to Leonardo da Vinci. This assertion, however, were it not rejected by Boschini, neither the line and forms peculiar to Vinci, nor his system of light and shade seem to countenance. Gracility and amenity of aspect, characterize the liues and fancy of Leonardo; fulness and roundness those of Giorgione. His greatest works were in fresco, of which little but the ruins remain. His numerous oil-pictures still preserve their beauty. Some consider as his masterpiece, "Moses taken from the Nile, and presented to the Daughter of Pharaoh," in the archiepiscopal palace at Milan; the sweetness of which is heightened by a certain austerity of tone.

HIPPOCRATES.

HIPPOCRATES was born 460 years before J. C. in the small island of Cos, which the great celebrity of that citizen has rendered illustrious.

He studied physic under his grandfather, Nebrus, in which he was eminently distinguished, and received a most liberal education. He prepared himself, a long time, for the practice of his art; not only by the theoretical study of physic, but by the attainment of all the practical knowledge of his time. He travelled afterwards, for twelve years, through Macedonia, Thrace, and Thessaly, and collected, during his journies, a great number of important observations; he also traversed Lybia and Scythia. At the court of the king of Macedonia he gave a remarkable proof of the experience he had acquired, and of the sagacity with which he was enabled to discover, by the smallest outward symptoms, the deep and secret motions of the human heart.

Consulted at this court by Perdiccas, the only son of the king, who appeared insensibly to languish under a fatal disease, he perceived that the cause of his malady, then regarded as incurable, had its origin in an unfortu nate attachment he had formed for Phila, a beautiful slave, belonging to his father.

The king of Persia was desirous of engaging Hippocrates to settle in his kingdom, at that time afflicted with all