It is recorded by Michiel that Giorgione left this piece unfinished and that the landscape, with a Cupid which subsequent restoration has removed, were completed after his death by Titian."Originally attributed to Giorgione, it is now thought that Titian reworked or finished most of the picture except for the nude". Ian G. Kennedy, Titian: circa 1490-1576, Taschen, 2006, p. 48. The picture is the prototype of Titian's own Venus of Urbino and of many more by other painters of the school; but none of them attained the fame of the first exemplar. The same concept of idealized beauty is evoked in a virginally pensive Judith from the Hermitage Museum, a large painting which exhibits Giorgione's special qualities of color richness and landscape romance, while demonstrating that life and death are each other's companions rather than foes.
It is recorded by Michiel that Giorgione left this piece unfinished and that the landscape with a Cupid which subsequent restoration has removed were completed after his death by Titian"Originally attributed to Giorgione it is now thought that Titian reworked or finished most of the picture except for the nude" Ian G Kennedy Titian circa 1490-1576 Taschen 2006 p 48 The picture is the prototype of Titian's own Venus of Urbino and of many more by other painters of the school; but none of them attained the fame of the first exemplar The same concept of idealized beauty is evoked in a virginally pensive Judith from the Hermitage Museum a large painting which exhibits Giorgione's special qualities of color richness and landscape romance while demonstrating that life and death are each other's companions rather than foes