Note 60 — GIORGIONE
Reading edition
The inaccurate copy in the Rovigo Gallery is a wretched daub that is not worth preserving. There are other poor replicas of the picture; one owned by Count Lanckoronski in Vienna is considered by Venturi to be the original. The other picture in the Rovigo Gallery (No. 11), sometimes spoken of in the same breath with Giorgione’s name, is equally worthless. It is nothing but a wretched copy of the head of the Vienna David.