In this little 'Golden Age' the landscape is quiet in tone, tinged with melancholy, romantic, to suit the mood of the figures.

Its colouring, though rich, is subdued, more like the tints of autumn than the fresh hues of spring.

The Venetians excelled in their treatment of colour.

They lived in an uncommon world of it.

Giorgione saw his picture in his mind's eye as a blaze of rich colour; he did not see the figures sharply outlined against a remote background, as are the three in Raphael's 'Knight's Dream.' That does not mean that Raphael, like the artist of the Richard II.