They represent him further as having made in Venetian painting an advance analogous to that made in Tuscan painting by Leonardo more than twenty years before; that is, as having released the art from the last shackles of archaic rigidity and placed it in possession of full freedom and the full mastery of its means.
Vasari omenja pomemben dogodek v Giorgionejevem življenju in enega tistih, ki je imel vpliv na njegovo delo, to je srečanje z Leonardom da Vincijem ob obisku v Benetkah leta 1500.