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LICHNER, MAGDOLNA: Additional material to establishing the subject of Jacopo Bassano's Sleeping shepherd
61. Titian: Shepherd Asleep with His Flock in an Alpine Setting, 1520-1525. Paris, Louvre suggested by dates: Titian might have seen the miniatures in the breviary, as it was certainly in Venice between 1523 and 1528. It was purchased by Cardinal Domenico Grimani (1461-1523) in 1520 10 , and Titian's drawings were executed in the 1520s. From the middle 1550s also Jacopo had the opportunity to peruse the illuminated pages, as Giovanni Grimani took them to Venice anew. 12 It is obvious that the paintings of Jacopo Bassano and his sons show several motifs that can be traced back to the miniatures in the Grimani Breviary, while in form and style they of course are basically different. The shepherd tending his flock, the milkmaid, the "greedy" goat grazing the foliage, the peasant ploughing with a pair of oxen and, in 10 Records of Marcantonio Michiel (1484-1552) on collections in Venice and Lombardy, in. Der Anonimo Morelliano, ed. Theodor Frimmel, Wien 1888. 104. See Fletcher, J., Marcantonio Michiel, 'che ha veduto assai' and Marcantonio Michiel: His Friends and Collection, The Burlington Magazine, August 1981 453-467, resp. October 602-608. 11 Chiari, M.A., Incisioni da Tiziano: Catalogo del Fondo Grafico a Stampa del Museo Correr, La Stamperia di Venezia, Venezia 1982, 31. 12 Gallo, R., Le donazioni alia Serenissima di Domenico e Giovanni Grimani, Archivio Veneto 1952, 34—77; Ruggieri, U., La Decorazione Pittorica della Libreria Martiana, mCultura e società nelRinascimento tra riforme e manierismi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia 1984, 314.; Perry, M., Cardinal Domenico Grimani's legacy of ancient art to Venice, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute 1978, 215-244.; on the possible links between Jacopo and his sons and the Grimani family see Ruggieri loc. cit. 314—315.
