
Giorgione (EN)
- Author Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa
- Binding Hardcover with jacket
- Size 24 x 32.5 cm
- Pages 256
- Illustrations 150
- Language English
- Year 2022
- ISBN 9788836648771
- Price € 25,50 € 24,22
Zorzi da Castelfranco, known as Giorgione: an artist whose documented works are only four – and only one has come down to us – mentioned in archival documents that can be counted on the fingers of one hand and of which each reconstruction is entirely hypothetical. Yet, after a career span of just over ten years, Giorgione has achieved a fame remaining unchanged over the centuries. Starting from Giovanni Bellini’s lessons in spirituality and harmony between man and nature, and from the use of colour by Giovan Battista Cima da Conegliano, the master of Castelfranco offers a highly peculiar synthesis of harmonious lyricism, immersing bodies and landscape into a soft and dense light. It is the tonal painting that, set by Cima and Bellini, with Giorgione turns into the language of initiation of the formidable brood becoming the protagonist of the great Venetian Cinquecento, the season of Palma il Vecchio, Sebastiano del Piombo and Titian.
INCIPIT
CHAPTER I
Zorzi’s Hidden Canvases. Visits with an Exceptional Guide
CHAPTER II
Gypsy Women and Philosophers: Giorgione’s Enigmas. Open Work, Context and Readings
CHAPTER III
A Façade and a Frieze. Debut and Early Success amidst Classicism and Astrology
CHAPTER IV
An Altarpiece for Castelfranco. Certain and Uncertain Family Ties: Costanzo and Barbarella
CHAPTER V
“With Time” and in a Hurry. Portraits of the Young and Old
CHAPTER VI
The Competition between the Arts. The Young Man from Castelfranco in the Venetian Melting Pot
CHAPTER VII
Portraits, Self-Portraits, Personalities and Interpreters. Giorgione’s Gallery
CHAPTER VIII
The Legend of the Libidinous Painter. A Myth and its Creators
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