La mano della nota Sydney sulla morte di Giorgione: prime ipotesi

The hand of Sydney note on Giorgione’s death: First hypothesis · In 2017, on the back of the final page of a 1497 incunabulum of Dante’s Divina Commedia held by the University of Sydney library, a red chalk sketch of a Madonna and Child and, above it, an ink inscription with the death notice of the painter Giorgione da Castelfranco were discovered. The inscription not only gave a precise date of, and age at, death of Giorgione, but also allowed for a possible attribution of the sketch to the artist himself. This paper attempts to identify the note’s writer. The hand seems to be that of a painter active in the workshop of Cima da Conegliano between 1497 and 1504, who wrote some cartouches in Cima’s paintings. Thus, the author of the inscription could be himself a painter, a colleague of Giorgione who greatly admired him.