MADONNA AND CHILD AND SAINTS FRANCIS AND ROCH. Canvas, 3 ft. x 4 ft. 5 in. [No. 341.]
From the Escurial; restored to Giorgione by Morelli, and now officially recognised as his work. (See [p. 45.])
UNITED STATES.
BOSTON, COLLECTION OF MRS. GARDNER.
CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS. Wood, 1 ft. 8 in. x 1 ft. 4 in.
Several variations and repetitions exist. (See [p. 18.])
Till lately in the Casa Loschi at Vicenza.
A few drawings by Giorgione meet with general recognition, but, like his paintings, they appear to have been unnecessarily restricted by an over-anxiety on the part of critics to leave him only the best. E.g. the drawing at Windsor for a part of an "Adoration of the Shepherds," is, no doubt, a preliminary design for the Beaumont or Vienna pictures. The limits of the present book will not allow a discussion on the subject, but we may remark that, like all Venetian artists, Giorgione made few preliminary sketches, concerning himself less with design and composition than with harmony of colour, light and shade, and "effect." The engraving by Marcantonio commonly called "The Dream of Raphael," is now known to be derived from Giorgione, to whom the subject was suggested by a passage in Servius' Commentary on Virgil (lib. iii. v. 12). (See Wickhoff, loc. cit.)