The Complete Paintings of Giorgione

Fülszöveg

CLASSICS OF THE WORLD'S GREAT ART
Titles available or in preparation in this series: Michelangelo • Giotto • Raphael • Caravaggio • Bosch Leonardo da Vinci • Venneer • Bruegel • Manet • Giorgione Piero della Francesca • Botticelli • The Van Eycks • Canaletto Mantegna • Watteau • Picasso-Blue and Rose Periods • Dürer
This series is based upon an exhaustive assembly of facts, painstakingly conn-piled. Its special feature, the comprehensive catalogue raisonné, summarizes the best available sources and examines the works themselves, giving specific attention to history and historiography, ancillary historical details, sociology, aesthetics, art criticism, iconography, symbolism, chronology, painting techniques, scientific methods of examination, conservation and restoration, literary influences, bibliography, catalogue references, comparative studies, copies and replicas. Such a feature, which should be of particular interest to students, arms the reader with the data necessary to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

CLASSICS OF THE WORLD'S GREAT ART
Titles available or in preparation in this series: Michelangelo • Giotto • Raphael • Caravaggio • Bosch Leonardo da Vinci • Venneer • Bruegel • Manet • Giorgione Piero della Francesca • Botticelli • The Van Eycks • Canaletto Mantegna • Watteau • Picasso-Blue and Rose Periods • Dürer
This series is based upon an exhaustive assembly of facts, painstakingly conn-piled. Its special feature, the comprehensive catalogue raisonné, summarizes the best available sources and examines the works themselves, giving specific attention to history and historiography, ancillary historical details, sociology, aesthetics, art criticism, iconography, symbolism, chronology, painting techniques, scientific methods of examination, conservation and restoration, literary influences, bibliography, catalogue references, comparative studies, copies and replicas. Such a feature, which should be of particular interest to students, arms the reader with the data necessary to appreciate the works in depth. The 'criteria of authenticity and documentary references have been scrupulously reviewed; opposing critical schools have been objectively confronted; and conclusions have been drawn only where the evidence for them is unimpeachable.
HARRY N. ABRAMS, I N C./110 East 59th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022

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The name of Giorgione has always been surrounded with an aura of mystery. The poetic quaUty of his style and his enigmatic subjects, combined with his early death and the paucity of information about the man himself, were responsible for creating a legend and for setting a fashion - alia giorgionesca -both in contemporary painting and in costume. The lasting demand for his art has led to forgeries, and to faulty attributions to him of works by lesser artists. Giorgione also had a formative influence on major artists such as Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Palma Vecchio, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish their youthful works from what may be Giorgione's own.
In this volume all the works which may plausibly be said to be by Giorgione are discussed in detail, together with those attributed to him; other lost works, attributed to the master in historical documents, are also listed.
Cecil Gould was educated at Westminster School. He is Deputy Keeper of the National Gallery, London. His works include An Introduction to Italian Renaissance Painting, 1957; The Sixteenth-Century Venetian Schools, 1959; The Sixteenth-Century Italian Schools (excluding the Venetian), 1962; The Leonardo Cartoon (with Sir Kenneth Clark), 1962; and Trophy of Conquest, 1965. He has written catalogues for several exhibitions and articles for various art magazines and encyclopaedias.
64 pages of color
130 black-and-white illustrations
Cover illustration: Detail from The Sleeping Venus Vissza