_Giorgione._ For the smallest list L. Venturi, _Giorgione e il
Giorgionismo_, Milan, 1913; for the longest list Herbert Cook,
_Giorgione_; for a middle view L. Justi, _Giorgione_, 2 vols., Berlin,
1908, most useful plates.
The general conditions of the problem are clearly stated by the late
Richard Norton in _Bernini and other Studies_, New York, 1914. L.
Hourticq, in _La Jeunesse de Titien_, Paris, 1919, has lately worked
over the pictures which lie between Titian and Giorgione in an
interesting but highly subjective fashion. Kenyon Cox, _Art in
America_, Vol. I, pp. 115 _ff._, makes the plausible suggestion that
the several portraits signed V or VV are by Titian, the letters
meaning Vecellius Venetus. This would make the Berlin portrait a
Titian.
Walter Pater’s essay on _The School of Giorgione_, in _The
Renaissance_ is as masterly for insight as it is for verbal beauty.
I hesitate to add one more to the varying opinions concerning
Giorgione’s paintings. At least I may introduce a novelty by classing
them according to probability, or rather according to the completeness
of my own conviction. In the whole matter we are largely in the field
of taste and opinion. E means early.
_Paintings, m. j. surely by Giorgione_
1. The Shepherds finding the Infant Paris (repainted fragment, E)
Budapest
2. “The Soldier and the Gipsy” E. Prince Giovanelli
3. Madonna with St. Francis and St. George (1504) Castelfranco
4. The Three Philosophers (finished by Sebastiano del Piombo) Vienna
5. Orpheus and Eurydice (_cassone_ panel) Bergamo
6. The Sleeping Venus (landscape by Titian) Dresden
7. Fresco of Nude Woman, nearly effaced (1508), represented by
Zanetti’s print Fondaco de’ Tedeschi
8. Judith (cut down at sides) Petrograd
9. His own Portrait (much cut down and damaged) Brunswick
10. Christ with his Cross Church of S. Rocco
11. The Concert (finished by Titian? or repainted in his manner?)
Florence
_Paintings probably by Giorgione._ I accept these, but do not think
the evidence demonstrative.
12–13. Stories of the Infant Paris (two _cassone_ panels, E.) Sir
Martin Conway, Allington Castle, Maidstone, England
14. The Fire Ordeal of Moses (door panel, E.) Florence
15. The Judgment of Solomon (door panel, E.) Florence
16. Christ bearing his Cross, E. Fenway Court, Boston.
17. Homage to a Poet, E. London
18. Portrait of a Young Man (possibly an early Titian) Berlin
19. Boy With an Arrow (old copy?) Vienna
20. Shepherd with a Flute Hampton Court
21. David with Goliath’s Head (copy? or ruined original?) Vienna
22. Altar-piece of St. John Chrysostom (mostly executed by Sebastiano
del Piombo) S. Giovanni Crisostomo
23. The Pastoral Symphony (radically repainted in recent times.) Paris
24. Portrait of a Man New York
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