Giorgione, Dante and the Sydney Incunable
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- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2026
Summary
While preparing for an event at the University of Sydney in 2017, a librarian turned to the back page of the library’s 1497 copy of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and made a curious discovery. In red chalk was a drawing of a woman and baby, and an inscription in Italian: “On the day of 17th September, Giorgione of Castelfranco, a very excellent artist, died of the plague in Venice at the age of 36 and he rests in peace.”
This discovery would shine the international art history…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522881844 |
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| ISBN-10: | 052288184X |
| Author: | Jaynie Anderson, John Gagne |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 882g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 199mm x 258mm |
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Jaynie Anderson
Jaynie Anderson is professor emeritus in art history at the University of Melbourne. In 1970 she was the first female Rhodes Fellow at Oxford, where she lectured until 1991. She was Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne from 1997 to 2014, and from 2008 to 2012 was president of the International Committee for Art History. In 2015 she received a knighthood from the President of the Republic of Italy for her distinguished research on Venetian Renaissance art.
John Gagné is Cassamarca Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Milan Undone: Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars (Harvard University Press, 2021), co-editor with Stephen Bowd and Sarah Cockram of Shadow Agents of Renaissance War: Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), and co-author with Timothy McCall of Fabric of War: The Material Culture and Social Lives of Banners in Renaissance Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2025). His research has appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, Art History, and I Tatti Studies in the Renaissance.
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