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See Venturi, op. cit., and Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Titian, ii. 58. From Das Museum, No. 79. "Unbekannter Meister um 1500. Bildnis der Caterina Cornaro." I am informed the original is now in the possession of the German Ambassador at The Hague, and that a plaster cast is at Berlin. Dr. Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1897, pp. 278-9.
I make bold, however, to include it in my list, and the more readily as Signor Venturi definitely assigns it to Giorgione himself, whose name, moreover, it has always borne. This unfinished portrait is, despite its repaint, extraordinarily attractive, the rich browns and reds forming a colour-scheme of great beauty.
Ricketts gives the Pitti "Concert" and the Caterina Cornaro to Titian without a tremor. Our own National Gallery "S. Liberate" is not mentioned by some at all; the Paris "Concert Champêtre," in which most of the judges believe so absolutely, Signor Lionello Venturi gives to Piombo. The Giovanelli picture and the Castel Franco altar-piece alone remain above suspicion in every book.
Judging only from the photograph, I should say he is correct in his identification of this as Giorgione's work. It seems to be akin to the "Apollo and Daphne," and "Orpheus and Eurydice." I am pleased to find Signor Venturi has anticipated my own conclusion in his recently published La Galleria Crespi. Mr. Meravig, i. 124.
The Giovanelli picture is one of the paintings which all the critics agree to give to Giorgione, from Sir Sidney Colvin in the Encyclopædia Britannica to the very latest monographer, Signor Lionello Venturi, whose work, Giorgione Giorgionismo, is a monument to the diversity of expert opinion.
The cases, therefore, are so far parallel, and the question naturally arises, Did Titian really have any hand in the painting of this portrait? Signor Venturi strongly denies it; to him the T.V. matters nothing, and he boldly proclaims Licinio the author.
Owing to these late hours and the amount of talking, perhaps, that he had got through, Percival slept late next morning, and it was not until eleven o'clock that he started, regardless of the heat, for the Villa Venturi.
In despair he flung aside his book, went up to his bed-room, and began to pack the modest knapsack which contained all his worldly wealth. In half-an-hour when he had had that five minutes' decisive conversation with Mr. Heron he would be on his way to Naples. He had all but finished his packing when the landlord shuffled upstairs to speak to him. There was a messenger from the Villa Venturi.
Padua Gallery Finally, two cassone panels in the gallery at Padua have been acclaimed by Signor Venturi as the master's own, and with that view I am entirely agreed. The splendour of colour, the lurid light, the richness of effect, are in the highest degree impressive. What artist but Giorgione would have so revelled in the glories of the evening sunset, the orange horizon, the distant blue hills?
Even if the clouds are grey, and the winds howl without, we might still read Dante's 'Paradiso' and Petrarca's 'Sonnets, as we used to do at the Villa Venturi." "Yes," said Elizabeth, gently, "we might. But here I shall not have time." "Why not? Why should you sacrifice yourself for others in the way you do? It is not right."
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