Note 69 — GIORGIONE
Reading edition
Gazette des Beaux Arts, Oct. 1897, p. 270. Berenson in this suggestive article has mixed ecstatic and girlish talk inextricably with sound argument. In his criticism of the Judith he says: “Il faudrait le talent d’un poète de premier ordre pour exprimer dans la plénitude tout ce qu’on devine dans la Judith de Saint Pétersbourg.” True, but though such sentiments fill the page, they do not have the same effect on our mind as the picture.