This list might still be extended by half a dozen numbers by including
pictures which may represent lost originals by Giorgione, but here we
are in a field too subjective for profitable discussion in a handbook.
_Pictures generally ascribed to Giorgione, I think erroneously._
The Knight of Malta (probably a Titian about 1515) Florence
Portrait of Broccardo Budapest
Storm Calmed by St. Mark (probably a Palma) Venice
Judgment of Solomon (Hourticq plausibly regards as copy of lost fresco
by Titian) Banks Coll., Kingston Lacy
Madonna with St. Antony and St. Roch (probably a Titian) Madrid
Portrait of a Woman Casino Borghese, Rome
The reason for excluding such works is their over-pathetic or
over-dramatic quality. The argument applies especially to the
Adulteress before Christ at Glasgow. Corroborative technical evidence
against this group may be found in L. Venturi’s excellent monograph.
CHAPTER VIII.—TITIAN AND THE VENETIAN RENAISSANCE
On the Venetian Renaissance in general we have the works cited at the
head of Notes for Chapter VII and for biographies and lists D. V.
Hadeln, new ed. Ridolfi, _Le Maraviglie dell’ Arte_, Berlin, 1914. A
brief survey by the late Kenyon Cox, in _Concerning Painting_, New York,
1917, pp. 98–132, is valuable.
Footnote 78:
_Titian._ Crowe and Cavalcaselle’s _The Life and Times of Titian_, in
2 vols., London, 1881, is still the fullest repository of information.
Georg Gronau’s popular but carefully done _Titian_, London and New
York, 1904, takes account of later documentary discoveries. As a
painter’s analysis of technical aims Charles Rickett’s _Titian_,
London, 1910, is noteworthy. Nearly all of Titian’s works are
published in _Klassiker der Kunst_, No. III, Stuttgart, 1906. Several
newly discovered pictures are reproduced in the recent volumes,
1918–22, of the _Burlington Magazine_, _Art in America_, and
_Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst_.
Footnote 79:
_Titian’s Age._ All the available material on this disputed matter is
offered by Mr. Herbert Cook and Dr. George Gronau in a controversy
printed as appendices to Cook’s _Giorgione_, London, 1907. The early
evidence is very conflicting.
Writing in 1557 Dolce implies Titian was born about 1489
„ „ 1566–7 Vasari „ „ „ „ 1489
„ „ 1564 A Spanish Envoy „ „ „ 1474
„ „ 1567 A Spanish Consul „ „ „ 1482
„ „ 1571 Titian himself „ „ „ „ 1477
„ „ 1584 Borghini „ „ „ „ 1478–9
Writing in 1545 and 1548 Titian refers to his old age and disabilities
(Cook, p. 141 note), expressions more natural if he was sixty-eight
and seventy-one than they would be if he were only fifty-six and
fifty-nine.
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