Il Tramonto (The Sunset)

Il Tramonto (The Sunset) is an oil on canvas landscape painting by Giorgione, created c. 1505-1508, now in the National Gallery, London, which bought it in 1961.

Il tramonto (The Sunset) (c. 1505-1508) by Giorgione

In the right background Saint George kills the dragon and Anthony the Great meditates in a cave, whilst Gottard lances Saint Roch's boil in the centre foreground. These sets of figures are divided by a river, as in the same artist's The Tempest.[1] The present of Saint Roch suggests the work was painted in thanks for the end of the 1504 plague in the Veneto.[2] The work shows influences from both Leonardo da Vinci and the Danube School.[3]

References
  1. (in Italian) Alessandra Fregolent, Giorgione, Electa, Milano 2001. ISBN 88-8310-184-7, page 75
  2. "Catalogue entry".
  3. (in Italian) Stefano Zuffi, Grande atlante del Rinascimento, Electa, Milano 2007. ISBN 978-88-370-4898-3, page 206
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