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but Venetian art has hardly anything more magnificent to show than the costume, with the quilted sleeve of steely, blue-grey satin which occupies so prominent a place in the picture.

      The Concert of the Palazzo Pitti, which depicts a young Augustinian monk playing on a keyed instrument, on one side of him a youthful cavalier in a plumed hat, on the other a bareheaded clerk holding a bass viol, was, until Morelli, almost universally looked upon as one of the most typical Giorgiones.[27] The most gifted of the purely aesthetic critics who have approached the Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater, actually built round this Concert his exquisite study on the School of Giorgione. There can be little doubt, however, that Morelli was right in denying the authorship of Barbarelli, and tentatively assigning the subtly attractive and tender Concert to Titian’s early period. To express a definitive opinion on the latter point in the present state of the picture would be somewhat hazardous. The portrait of the modish young cavalier and that of the staid elderly clerk, whose baldness renders tonsure impossible – that is just those portions of the canvas which are least well preserved – are also those that least conclusively suggest our master. The passion-worn, ultra-sensitive physiognomy of the young Augustinian is, undoubtedly, in its very essence a Giorgionesque creation, for the fellows of which we must turn to the Castelfranco master’s Antonio Broccardo, to his male portraits in Berlin and at the Uffizi, and to his figure of the youthful Pallas, son of Evander, in the Three Philosophers. Closer to it, all the same, are the Raffo and the two portraits in the Saint Mark of the Salute, and closer still is the supremely fine Man with a Glove of the Salon Carré, that later production of Vecelli’s early period. The Concert of the Palazzo Pitti displays an art certainly not finer or more delicate, but yet in its technical processes broader, swifter, and more synthetic than anything that we can with certainty point to in the life work of Barbarelli. The large but handsome and flexible hands of the player are much nearer in type and treatment to Titian than they are to his master. The beautiful motif – music for one happy moment uniting by invisible bonds of sympathy three human beings – is akin to that in the Three Ages, though there love steps in as the beautifier of rustic harmony. It is to be found also in Titian’s Rustic Concert in the Louvre, in which the thrumming of the lute is one among many delights appealing to the senses. This smouldering heat, this tragic passion in which youth revels, looking back already with discontent, yet forward also with unquenchable yearning, is the keynote of the Giorgionesque and the early Titianesque male portraiture. Altogether apart, and less due to a reaction from physical ardour, is the exquisite sensitivity of Lorenzo Lotto, who sees most willingly in his sitters those qualities that are in the closest sympathy with his own highly-strung nature, and loves to present them as some secret, indefinable woe tears at their heart-strings. A strong element of the Giorgionesque pathos informs still and gives charm to the Sciarra Violin-Player of Sebastiano del Piombo; only there it is already tempered by the haughty self-restraint more proper to Florentine and Roman portraiture. There is little or nothing to add after this as to the Man with a Glove, except that as a representation of aristocratic youth it has hardly a parallel among the master’s works except, perhaps, a later and equally admirable, though less distinguished, portrait in the Palazzo Pitti.

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      Примечания

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      Herr Franz Wickhoff in his now famous article “Giorgione’s Bilder zu Römischen Heldengedichten” (Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen: Sechzehnter Band, I. Heft) has most ingeniously, and upon what may be deemed solid grounds, renamed this most Giorgionesque of all Giorgiones after an incident in the Thebaid of Statius, Adrastus and Hypsipyle. He gives reasons which may be accepted as convincing for entitling the Three Philosophers, after a familiar incident in Book viii. of the Aeneid, “Aeneas, Evander, and Pallas contemplating the Rock of the Capitol.” His not less ingenious

Примечания

1

Herr Franz Wickhoff in his now famous article “Giorgione’s Bilder zu Römischen Heldengedichten” (Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen: Sechzehnter Band, I. Heft) has most ingeniously, and upon what may be deemed solid grounds, renamed this most Giorgionesque of all Giorgiones after an incident in the Thebaid of Statius, Adrastus and Hypsipyle. He gives reasons which may be accepted as convincing for entitling the Three Philosophers, after a familiar incident in Book viii. of the Aeneid, “Aeneas, Evander, and Pallas contemplating the Rock of the Capitol.” His not less ingenious explanation of Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love will be dealt with a little later on. These identifications are all-important, not only in connection with the works themselves thus renamed, and for the first time satisfactorily explained, but as compelling the students of Giorgione partly to reconsider their view of his art, and, indeed, of the Venetian idyll generally.

2

For many highly ingenious interpretations of Lotto’s portraits and a sustained analysis of his art generally, Bernard Berenson’s Lorenzo Lotto should be consulted. See also Emile Michel’s article, “Les Portraits de Lorenzo Lotto,” in the Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1896, vol. I.

3

For these and other particulars of the childhood of Titian, see Crowe and Cavalcaselle’s elaborate Life and Times of Titian (second edition, 1881), in which are carefully summarised all the general and local authorities on the subject.

4

Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Life and Times of Titian, vol. I. p. 29.

5

Die Galerien zu München und Dresden, p. 75.

6

Carlo Ridolfi (better known as a historian of the Venetian school of art than as a Venetian painter of the late time) expressly states that Palma came to Venice young and learnt much from Titan: “C’ egli apprese certa dolcezza di colorire che si avvicina alle opere prime dello stesso Tiziano” (Lermolieff: Die Galerien zu München und Dresden).

7

Vasari, Le Vite: Giorgione da Castelfranco.

8

One of these is a description of wedding festivities presided over by the Queen at Asolo, to which came, among many other guests from the capital by the Lagunes, three Venetian gentlemen and three ladies. This gentle company, in a series of conversations, dwell upon, and embroider in many variations, that inexhaustible theme, the love of man for woman. A subject this which, transposed into an atmosphere at once more frankly sensuous and of a higher spirituality, might well have served as the basis for such a picture as Titian’s Rustic Concert in the Salon Carré of the Louvre!

9

Mentioned in one of the inventories of the king’s effects, taken after his execution, as Pope Alexander and Seignior Burgeo (Borgia) his son.

10

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