He received his early training in the workshop of \b \cf4 \ATXht1148 Giovanni Bellini\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , and then came under the sway of Giorgione. It was from the latter that he derived the mellow picturesqueness of his works, though he interpreted it
in a more constructive sense, with a more marked plastic definition of the images and a greater interest in the relationship between figures and architecture. In 1511 he left Venice and moved to Rome. His encounter with \b \cf4 \ATXht1201 Raphael\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 Æs frescoes in the Vatican Stanze and MichelangeloÆs on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel induced him to accentuate his own inclination to the ôgrand mannerö and to seek, even in his panel paintings, sculptural and opulent effects, enhanced by a
