Giorgione eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 158 pages of information about Giorgione.

Giorgione eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 158 pages of information about Giorgione.

MILAN, CRESPI COLLECTION.

PORTRAIT OF CATERINA CORNARO.  Canvas, 3 ft. 11 in. x 3 ft. 2 in.

From the Alessandro Martinengo Gallery, Brescia (1640), thence to Collection Francesco Riccardi, Bergamo, where C. and C. saw it in 1877. They state it was engraved in the line series of Sala.  It has been known traditionally both as Caterina Cornaro and “La Schiavona.” (See p. 74.)

In the signature T.V. it is clear that the V represents the last letter but one in TITIANVS.  The first three letters can just be made out.  There are many pentimenti on the marble parapet, which seems to have been painted over the dress.

PADUA, GALLERY.

Two cassone panels with mythological scenes.  Wood, about 4 ft. x 1 ft. each. [Nos. 416, 417.]

(See p. 56.)

Two very small panels with mythological scenes, one representing LEDA
AND THE SWAN.  Wood, about 5 in. x 3 in. each. [Nos. 42, 43.]

(See p. 90.)

ROME, BORGHESE GALLERY.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY.  Canvas, 3 ft. 2 in. x 2 ft. 6 in.

(See p. 33.)

NATIONAL GALLERY, PAL.  CORSINI.

S. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON.

Recently acquired.

(Tentatively accepted from the photograph.  See p. 91.)

ROVIGO, GALLERY.

MADONNA AND CHILD. [NO. 2.]

Repetition by Titian of Giorgione’s original at Vienna

(See p. 98.)

A SMALL SEATED FIGURE.  DANAE? [No. 156.]

Copy of a missing original.

VENICE, ACADEMY.

STORM AT SEA CALMED BY S. MARK.  Wood, 11 ft. 8 in. x 13 ft. 6 in. [No. 516.]

From the Scuola di S. Marco, where it was companion piece to Paris Bordone’s “Fisherman and Doge.”  Ascribed by Vasari to Palma Vecchio, by Zanetti to Giorgione.

Too damaged to admit of definite judgment. (See p. 55.)

THREE FIGURES.  Half-lengths; a woman fainting, supported by a man; another behind.

Modern copy by Fabris of apparently a missing original.  Can this be the picture mentioned by C. and C. as in the possession of the King of Holland? (C. and C. ii. 149, note.) Cf. also, Notes to Sansoni’s Vasari, iv. p. 104.  Another version is at Buckingham Palace (q.v.), but it differs in detail from this copy.

SEMINARIO.

APOLLO AND DAPHNE. Cassone panel.  Wood.  Small figures, much defaced. 
(See p. 34.)

CHURCH OF SAN ROCCO.  CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS.  Panel.  Busts large as life.  About 3 ft. x 2 ft.

Christ clad in pale grey, head turned three-quarters looking out of the picture, auburn hair and beard, bears cross.  He is dragged forward by an elderly man nude to waist.  Another man in profile to left.  An old man with white beard just visible behind Christ. (See p. 54.)

PAL.  ALBUZIO.  JUDGMENT OF PARIS.

Another version of this subject, of which copies exist at Christiania,
Lord Malmesbury’s, and Dresden.

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