An interdisciplinary team of scholars and scientists at the Alte Pinakothek and the Doerner Institut in Munich has made a spectacular discovery. In-depth art-historical and art-technological investigations, conducted as part of a research project on the holdings of Venetian Renaissance paintings at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections), have now confirmed the findings that had already begun to emerge during the exhibition ‘Venezia 500<< The Gentle Revolution of Venetian Painting’ (Alte Pinakothek, October 2023–February 2024). The enigmatic double portrait, which had been exhibited at the Grüne Galerie in the Munich Residenz since 2011 and is now on permanent display at the Alte Pinakothek, has been attributed to Giorgio da Castelfranco (1473/74–1510), better known as Giorgione. This makes it one of the few known works by the exceptionally talented artist, whose brief active period revolutionised Renaissance painting. The research findings – which are nothing short of a sensation for the art history of Italian Renaissance painting – are now being made available to the public in an open-access online publication.

Publication
Anneliese Földes, Johanna Pawis, Heike Stege, Eva Ortner, Andreas Schumacher, Jan Schmidt, Jens Wagner, Andrea Obermeier: One Canvas, Four Ideas: A Double Portrait Attributed to Giorgione With Different Compositions Underneath | ArtMatters, in: ArtMatters. International Journal for technical art history, volume 9, issue 1,  pp. 1–33.

Research Project 
The multi-year research project headed by Andreas Schumacher and Eva Ortner is generously supported by the DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT (DFG), the ERNST VON SIEMENS KUNSTSTIFTUNG, and the HUBERT BURDA STIFTUNG. For more details, see: Venetian Renaissance Painting in the Alte Pinakothek