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WHO was the first modern artist? How about Giorgione? (46)A far-fetched notion, perhaps, but this Renaissance Venetian revolutio

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问题     WHO was the first modern artist? How about Giorgione? (46)A far-fetched notion, perhaps, but this Renaissance Venetian revolutionized painting—and his work, focusing on subjects such as bodies, landscapes and female beauty, was titled "modern" by the leading art commentator of the day, Vasari.
    Giorgione was not alone, as illustrated by the excellent catalogue accompanying the exhibition "Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting" now showing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (47)What made him, and the generation of artists he inspired, so special was his ability to absorb the new currents of culture then flowing through Venice. A catalyst was Leonardo Da Vinci, who briefly visited Venice in 1500. In Leonardo’s drawings, Giorgione, as well as the younger artist, Titian, and their master, Giovanni Bellini, glimpsed a new conception of the human form, based on observation and expressed in smoky contours and subtle shades of light and dark.
    Over the subsequent 30 years, one of the most exciting periods in the history of art unfolded. In readable, engaging essays, David Brown and Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, the exhibition’s curators, together with a team of top scholars, tell its story. We learn how this triumvirate of Venetian painters devoured not only Leonardo’s ideas, but also those of Albrecht Darer, the German artist whose realistic rendering of nature was known in Venice through prints, even before his sojourn there in 1506-7. (48)Darer’s work taught Venetian artists that landscape could be an independent element of a painting, rather than just a symbolic backdrop for religious subjects.
    The result was a new style full of natural movement, sensuality and poetic atmosphere. (49)Venetian painting had long been characterized by its jewel-like color—obtained by grinding colored glass and minerals—but now it was applied in a way that gave art the kiss of life.
    Giorgione blazed the trail. A top student of Bellini, he later forged his own style, inspired by the current vogue for pastoral love poetry based on recently discovered ancient texts, then the bestsellers of Venice’s flourishing printing industry. (50)He excelled at what was known among the educated elite as the model a competition between painting and poetry in which painters sought to prove that they could rival poets in conveying beauty by appealing to the eyes, as well as to the mind. This was revolutionary because it implied that painting originated in the imagination of the artist, rather than being a simple recording of the great and the good, history and religion. It proved painters were creators and not just craftsmen.
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答案或许回答有些牵强，但这个文艺复兴时代的威尼斯人给绘画带来了革命，他的作品关注人体、风景和女性美等题材，这些都被当时著名的评论家Vasari授予"现代"的称号。
解析 work的正确理解；far-fetched，notion，revolutionize，leading的意译；被动语态的正确翻译。句子由三部分组成，分别由but和and连接。难点在破折号后的部分：focusing on subjects such as bodies，landscapes and female beauty是一句定语从句修饰work，省略了which is。此句话的主干为A far-fetched notion was titled "modern" by sb.。notion原意为"概念、想法"，但前面两句是问句，此处很明显是要给出答案，所以译成"回答"；farfetched从字面意思来看，是去太远的地方取来，从本段来看，这个回答是不尽如人意的，故译成"牵强"；work有很多意思，这里是指艺术家的work，自然要译成"作品"；revolutionize是动词，译成"给…带来了革命"；修饰work的定语从句的翻译处理方法有两种：第一是直接译为被修饰语的定语，第二是译成分句。这里定语部分太长，因此选择第二种方法译成分句，以免句子臃肿；leading原意为"最重要的，主要的"，这里意译成"著名的"。
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