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An essay titled for this artist notes that, though “criticism has diminished the number of his authentic works,” a hometown chapel still houses his altarpiece with the “warrior-saint” Liberale. That essay titled for this artist claims that all art aspires toward the “condition of music.” This artist was [emphasize] formerly attributed a painting in which two nude women flank a lute player and his companion sitting on the grass, titled Pastoral Concert. (10[2]-5[1])A second nude woman, rather than a man with a staff, was originally at the left of one of this artist’s paintings in which a single lightning bolt appears over a cityscape. (10[1])Before (10[1])dying, this artist from Castelfranco began painting a Sleeping Venus that was completed by his contemporary, Titian. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Venetian painter of The (-5[1])Tempest. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Giorgione [or Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; or Zorzo; accept “The School of Giorgione”] (Pater identifies the Castelfranco Madonna’s armored saint as Liberalis, but most scholars today identify him as Nicasius.)
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