Solomon's judgment

The Judgment of Solomon is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione (1500-1501). It is located in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.

The work is dimensionally and thematically similar to his painting Test of Fire of Moses Pendant, also in the Uffizi. It shows Solomon, king of the Jews, on the throne, with court dignitaries and two women at his feet. The two women claimed the same child and had appealed to the King. Solomon's election exposed the false one. Behind them are two large oak trees that divide the landscape into two parts.

An assistant of Ferrarese collaborated with Giorgione in making the figures.

Born in Giorgione, Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance of Venice, who died at the age of thirty. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, although only about six surviving paintings are firmly attributed to him. The uncertainty surrounding the identity and meaning of his work has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figures in European art.

Together with Titian, who was probably slightly younger, he founded the distinctive Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting, which achieves much of its effect through color and mood, and is traditionally contrasted with Florentine painting, which It is based on a more linear style designed by design. .