The Aristotelic phantasmata & the simulacra theory of Lucretius in a painting attributed to Giorgione, Titian & Sebastiano del Piombo

[Triple portrait]. Attribution incertaine: Giorgione (1477-1510), Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), Titien (1489-1576). Detroit, the Detroit Institute of Arts The various attributions that have accompanied the painting being discussed here, and the many titles given to it during its history confirm its problematic nature, in terms both of paternity and iconography. Confining ourselves to the painting’s more recent art-historical fortune, which reflects the querelle relating to it inaugurated..