Though I do not happen to have seen it since, and so speak with a forty years' interval, the pen-and-ink drawing of Ariel, portrayed exactly like a Cinquecento angel, is fixed in my mind.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
And then I looked up after having my ticket clipped and saw the perfect youthful mother of the Cinquecento painters sitting opposite me.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
Thus in him are united the quattrocentist tradition and the fresher ideals of the Cinquecento, which found earliest expression in Giambellini's Allegories of about 1486-90. The poetic element in these works strongly appealed to Giorgione's sensitive nature, and we find him developing this side of his art in the Beaumont "Adoration," and the National Gallery "Epiphany," both of which are clearly early productions.
"Giorgione"
Herbert Cook