Year 1500–1501 Artist Giorgione Period High Renaissance Location Uffizi, Florence | Medium Oil on panel Created 1501 Genre Christian art | |
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Dimensions 89 cm × 72 cm (35 in × 28 in) Similar The Test of Fire of Moses, Castelfranco Madonna, The Three Ages of Man, The Three Philosophers, Laura | ||
The Judgment of Solomon is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione (1500–1501). It is housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi of Florence.
The work is dimensionally and thematically similar to its Pendant painting Test of Fire of Moses, also in the Uffizi. It shows Solomon, King of the Jews, on the throne, with the court dignitaries and two women at his feet. The two women were both claiming the same child and had appealed to the King. Solomon's choice unmasked the faking one. Behind them are two large oaks which divide the landscape into two parts.
A Ferrarese assistant collaborated with Giorgione in the realization of the figures.
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