Buildings with Trees

school Giorgione

Summary

A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing from the School of Giorgione. The drawing shows the edge of a town, and a field and wood beside it. The town is positioned in the right middle ground with high buildings and a tower towards the centre. In the front of the town in the field is a high haystack. To the left appears to be a small stream running to the lower left corner of the composition and in the left background is a wooded area. Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society: "No. 11 SCHOOL OF GIORGIONE GROUP OF BUILDINGS WITH TREES Collection of Mr. Edward Holland. Pen and bistre. 19.7 x 27.3 cm. (7 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.) This drawing is evidently from the same hand as one in Mr. Fairfax Murray's Collection (No. 59 in his volume of Reproductions). Both bear the impress of the immediate school of Giorgione, and both are of more precise and delicate workmanship than even the earliest of the sheets which can be legitimately ascribed to Domenico Campagnola (e.g. the signed example in the British Museum, Malcolm, J.C.R. 388). Mr. Murray ascribes his example to the elder Campagnola, Giulio; and judging by the style of that master's engravings, the attribution is evidently reasonable, though not to my mind s convincing as in the case of the Oxford drawing formerly in the Douce Collection (see Oxford Drawings, Part III, No. 12). S. C."