DOI Heft:
No. 327 (June 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Artikel:Reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0165
REVIEWS
UFFIZI GALLERY, FLORENCE,
SALA VI (FLORENTINE SCHOOL
OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY)
Tobit with the Three Angels, which, once
assigned to Botticelli, is now marked as
u School of Andrea del Verocchio.” 0
The “ Tribuna ” has been cleared of the
miscellaneous collection of masterpieces
which formerly filled it, hung row above
row. The Adam and Eve by Cranach have
been taken to the rooms of the German
School; the Raphaels and Titians, too, are
gone to join their own groups ; Perugino's
Portrait of Francesco delle Opera is with a
few others of the Umbrian School in the
lovely little adjoining room hung with
silvery green watered silk. Nothing re-
mains in the “ Tribuna ” but the five
statues (the central place being given to the
Venus dei Medici), and a single line of
pictures, chiefly portraits by Bronzino,
including the two Panciatichi portraits
which hung here formerly, and some of
the portraits of the Medici children. 0
And so it is all along : the gathering
here from the Accademia of pictures which
were lacking to complete groups or link
up sequences ; intelligent co-ordination ;
abundant space; in fact, improvement
from first to last. 0000
Many rooms still remain closed ; but
those which are open afford a sufficient
indication of the care which is being
bestowed upon the work ; and the benefit
conferred upon students is one which they
will not be slow to appreciate when the
way to Italy lies once more open as before.
D. Nevile Lees
REVIEWS
La Jeunesse de Titien. Par Louis
Hourticq. (Paris : Hachette.) 20 frs.—
Whether one accepts or rejects the conclu-
sions arrived at by Professor Hourticq in
this highly controversial study of the early
career of Titian, no one will begrudge him
due credit for his courage in stating them,
and for the zeal with which he has con-
ducted the researches on which those
conclusions are founded. The paramount
purpose of his thesis is, briefly put, to
assign to Titian the authorship of certain
works which have hitherto been usually
attributed to other masters of his epoch.
The most important of these works is the
Concert Champetre in the Louvre, tradi-
tionally assigned to Giorgione, though
Venturi has advanced the claims of Sebas-
tiano del Piombo, and two German critics
those of Domenico Campagnola. The
chief evidence on which the Titian author-
159
UFFIZI GALLERY, FLORENCE,
SALA VI (FLORENTINE SCHOOL
OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY)
Tobit with the Three Angels, which, once
assigned to Botticelli, is now marked as
u School of Andrea del Verocchio.” 0
The “ Tribuna ” has been cleared of the
miscellaneous collection of masterpieces
which formerly filled it, hung row above
row. The Adam and Eve by Cranach have
been taken to the rooms of the German
School; the Raphaels and Titians, too, are
gone to join their own groups ; Perugino's
Portrait of Francesco delle Opera is with a
few others of the Umbrian School in the
lovely little adjoining room hung with
silvery green watered silk. Nothing re-
mains in the “ Tribuna ” but the five
statues (the central place being given to the
Venus dei Medici), and a single line of
pictures, chiefly portraits by Bronzino,
including the two Panciatichi portraits
which hung here formerly, and some of
the portraits of the Medici children. 0
And so it is all along : the gathering
here from the Accademia of pictures which
were lacking to complete groups or link
up sequences ; intelligent co-ordination ;
abundant space; in fact, improvement
from first to last. 0000
Many rooms still remain closed ; but
those which are open afford a sufficient
indication of the care which is being
bestowed upon the work ; and the benefit
conferred upon students is one which they
will not be slow to appreciate when the
way to Italy lies once more open as before.
D. Nevile Lees
REVIEWS
La Jeunesse de Titien. Par Louis
Hourticq. (Paris : Hachette.) 20 frs.—
Whether one accepts or rejects the conclu-
sions arrived at by Professor Hourticq in
this highly controversial study of the early
career of Titian, no one will begrudge him
due credit for his courage in stating them,
and for the zeal with which he has con-
ducted the researches on which those
conclusions are founded. The paramount
purpose of his thesis is, briefly put, to
assign to Titian the authorship of certain
works which have hitherto been usually
attributed to other masters of his epoch.
The most important of these works is the
Concert Champetre in the Louvre, tradi-
tionally assigned to Giorgione, though
Venturi has advanced the claims of Sebas-
tiano del Piombo, and two German critics
those of Domenico Campagnola. The
chief evidence on which the Titian author-
159