Organised in connection with the Royal Academy’s exhibition ‘In the Age of Giorgione’, this study day will focus on the revolution that took place in Venetian art in the early sixteenth century when a new type of painting was developed by the elusive artist, Giorgione. Although Giovanni Bellini remained the preeminent Venetian painter until his death in 1516, the technical and stylistic innovations introduced by Giorgione, prior to his premature demise in 1510, had a profound influence on a younger generation artists, led by Titian and Sebastiano del Piombo. Papers will consider the new genres, including pastoral landscapes and allegorical portraits, that accompanied the new style of painting. Aspects of the literary, social, and artistic milieu that engendered the innovations associated with Giorgionesque works will also be examined. A keynote address by Nicholas Penny in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre will conclude the day’s proceedings.
Session 1: Painting and Poetry
Chair: Paul Hills (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
12:00-12.30 Federica Pich (The Courtauld Institute of Art and Leeds University) Closed Rooms and Open Landscapes: Male Portraits and the Lyric Tradition in the Early Sixteenth Century
12:30-1:00 Beverly Brown, The Perplexing Problem of Portraits and Parapets
1:00-2:00 lunch
Session 2: 1500-1510 in Venice and the Veneto
Chair: Guido Rebecchini (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
2:00-2:30 Sarah Ferrari (Università degli Studi di Padova) Giorgione’s Interpretation of “Pastoral Landscape”: An Insight into the Problems of his Early Activity
2:30-3:00 Irene Brooke Tratta da Zorzi: Rethinking Giulio Campagnola’s Artistic Evolution and his Place in Venetian Print Culture in the Age of Giorgione
3:00-3:30 Giovanni Maria Fara (Università degli Studi di Venezia, Ca’ Foscari) Albrecht Dürer and the «heimlicher perspetiua» of the Italians: An Investigation of the Sources (This paper will be given in Italian)
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Giovanni Maria Fara has had to cancel his paper.
3:30-4:00 Tea / coffee
Session 3: Giorgione and Cariani
Chair: Per Rumberg (The Royal Academy)
4:00-4:30 Paul Holberton, Allegory and Instantaneity in Venetian Art (Reflections on Cariani’s Fête champetre in Warsaw)
4:30-5:00 Simone Facchinetti (Museo Adriano Bernareggi, Bergamo) / Arturo Galansino (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence), Afterthoughts on the Exhibition “In the Age of Giorgione”
5:00-6:00 keynote in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre: Nicholas Penny
6:00-7:00 drinks /reception