Il caso Giorgione

Giorgione, an artist as emblematic as he is enigmatic, about whose life little or nothing is known, is actually a seventeenth-century invention, the result of an actual plot to create and launch the “Giorgione brand,” hatched during the years when art trafficking in Venice had reached its peak.

Tracing the sources in a precise and cogent analysis, Bernard Aikema debunks the myth of the Castelfranco painter, demonstrating with incontrovertible logic how his figure is the result of a targeted and concerted “marketing operation,” and then accurately reconstructs the activity of the painters of the “Giorgione group,” an expression of a new and dynamic interactive relationship between the work of art and the public.

An extensively documented and highly innovative volume that reads like a novel, or rather like an authentic detective story, authored by one of the greatest living art historians.

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Bernard Aikema – Born in Amsterdam but living in Venice for many years, formerly a full professor of modern art history at the University of Verona, he is an internationally renowned expert on Veneto art, specializing in the study of artistic relations between European countries in the modern era. He is the author of many publications on these subjects and curator of exhibitions in the United States, the Netherlands and Italy.