A new Giorgione arrives at the Gallerie dell'Accademia: three of his works are now in the Venice museum

The Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice is enriched with a new painting by Giorgione (Castelfranco Veneto, 1478 - Venice, 1510): it is the Concerto, also known as David the Singer, granted to the museum on a five-year loan from a private collector, and it joins the celebrated Tempest and the Old Woman. The three works make up a fundamental Giorgionesque nucleus, as all were once part of the collection of Venetian patrician Gabriele Vendramin. For a month, starting June 27, 2018, the three works will be exhibited all together in Room XXIII of the Galleries: afterwards, the Vecchia will undergo a major and necessary restoration. The other two paintings will remain visible, however, together.

“The temporary arrangement,” the presentation reads, “will see them juxtaposed to allow us to grasp different declinations of Giorgione’s art at the Galleries: the Tempest an innovation toward landscape painting, the Vecchia a portrait of time, the Concerto a new monumentality of the figure.” The Concerto, which has also been read as Cantore deriso, is a work attributed to Giorgione, and those who assign it to the production of the Venetian artist (some scholars are in fact uncertain about the attribution) tend to place it in the last phase of his career, at a date roughly between 1508 and 1510.

Pictured: Giorgione, Concert (c. 1508-1510; oil on canvas, 86 x 70 cm; Private collection, granted on a five-year loan to the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice)

A new Giorgione arrives at the Gallerie dell'Accademia: three of his works are now in the Venice museum

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