Buchanan, William: Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Band 1) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

140 ORLEANS COLLECTION.
To the school of Venice all the other schools
were indebted for that suavity of colouring which
first relieved the art from the dry and Gothic
manner which had existed previous to the period
of Giorgione and of Titian; and whose princi-
ples were more or less adopted by those schools,
although differing in their mode of execution.—
Giorgione borrowed from Leonardo da Vinci, and
on that great model improved the design of the
Venetian school, while the other schools, in their
turn, borrowed from Giorgione.
England is rich in the works of Titian, and
although many of these works have been painted
above 300 years, they still retain their pristine
beauty.