In the context of Pastoral Concert, explain the Giorgione of the Attribution.
Pastoral Concert was attributed to Giorgione until the 20th century, mostly because Giorgione himself was included in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. While not explicitly named in the book, this passage is inferred: "a musician who played the lute for musicians and continually enjoyed the pleasures of love." This passage refers to the artist because the description matched so closely to the subject of this painting. A work known to have been painted by Giorgione, The Tempest, is referenced in Pastoral Concert through the use of colored hosiery worn by the male subjects, a symbol of Compagnie della Calza, an elite patrician order of young men.
Pastoral Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Compagnie della Calza Giorgio Vasari work The Tempest Giorgione