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Concert Champetre: Giorgione? or Titian

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Tabarek Aldabbagh,  Hello everyone! Today's blog will be about a very famous painting and artist. More so, an article about them. Le Concert Chapetre , Titian 1509. (The Louvre, Paris)  The article I will be discussing is Francis Haskel's "G IORGIONE'S CONCERT CHAMPÊTRE AND ITS ADMIRERS". It talks about Giorgione(c. 1477-1510), an Italian artist, and his painting in detail. The difference is that this article brings something new to light, the audience. It focuses on what kind of audience gravitates towards said painting. "What it may have meant to the man who ordered and paid for it, to the artist's contemporaries and successors, to the critics and historians of the time or later - all this tends to be neglected".(Haksel, 544) This article almost feels like a criticism of the way art historians discuss art.       Comparing the information in the article with the information in chapter 13 of Cunningham & Reich's Culture and Values Volume 2 . ...