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Giorgione: The Three Philosophers
The colors of the garments of the men in Giorgione's "Three Philosophers" have hardly been noticed in the scholarly literature. Do they provide a clue to the subject of the painting? Below find an...
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Giorgione: Boy with an Arrow
As far as I know the most important iconographical detail in Giorgione’s “Boy with an Arrow” has never been discussed. It is the color of the young man’s tunic. Why did Giorgione deliberately choose...
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Giorgione's Laura, Titian's Flora, and Mary Magdalen
The following article is a compilation and updating of previous posts on Giorgione's "Laura", Titian's "Flora" and other mysterious beautiful women of the Venetian Renaissance who could all be Mary...
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Stokstad on Giorgione's Tempest
Marilyn Stokstad’s “Art History”* is apparently one of the most popular art history textbooks in America. It has gone through at least five editions and has made enough money for the now retired...
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Renaissance Art Mysteries
This September marks the third anniversary of Giorgione et al… Previously, I had created a website for my work on Giorgione's Tempest but was advised that blogspot would reach a wider audience. Seeing...
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Renaissance Art Mysteries: Mary and Judith
In my last post I listed my four major interpretive discoveries concerning some of the most famous and mysterious works of the Venetian Renaissance. Although I believe that the name of Giorgione’s...
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Renaissance Art Mysteries: Young St. Joseph
My original intuition that Giorgione’s “Tempest” was actually a depiction of the “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” naturally led me to see the young man in the painting as St. Joseph standing guard over...
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Renaissance Art Mysteries: Giorgione, "Saturn Exiled" or "Man of Sorrows"
Renaissance Art Mysteries: Giorgione “Saturn Exiled” or “Man of Sorrows”.In my past few posts I have listed eleven paintings including some of the most famous, beautiful, and mysterious of the Venetian...
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Hasan Niyazi R.I.P.
I just heard that Hasan Niyazi, my friend and fellow Art history blogger, died suddenly over the weekend. Hasan was from Australia and in the past three...
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Renaissance Mysteries: Raphael's "Vision of Ezekiel"?
Although most of my work has centered around Giorgione, Titian and the Venetian Renaissance, my acquaintance with Hasan Niyazi and his popular Art history blog, Three Pipe Problem, led me to consider...
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Renaissance Mysteries: The Old Woman in Titian's "Presentation"
There is no mystery about the subject of Titian's famous version of "The Presentation of the Virgin". It is a depiction of the legendary account of Mary's dedication to the temple by her parents,...
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Titian at the Norton Simon Museum
On a recent trip to the Los Angeles area to visit one of my daughters I had an opportunity to visit the famed Norton Simon Museum in nearby Pasadena. The information brochure for the Museum indicated...
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Giorgione: Christmas Stamp
Giorgione: Adoration of the Shepherds"In 1971, an incredible 1.2 billion copies of a single postage stamp were printed by the U.S. Postal Service. It was the largest stamp printing order in the world...
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Titian: Madonna of the Rabbit
Titian’s “Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and a Shepherd” is commonly called the “Madonna of the Rabbit” because of the white rabbit prominently featured in the center. The rabbit is held by the...
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Venice in 1500
It is hard to imagine today but in the year 1500 Venice was the greatest power on the European continent. Founded in the fifth century by refugees seeking the protection of its...
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Jesus and Mary Magdalen
When my wife and I travel to visit family, I always like to look into local museums if time allows. Recently we spent the whole month of February in the San Francisco bay area primarily to help our...
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Raphael, Giorgione, and the Flight into Egypt
This week I will attend the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America to be held in nearby New York City. Four years ago I presented my interpretation of Giorgione's "Tempest" as "The Rest...
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Renaissance Society Conference 2014
I was really looking forward to attending the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America that was held this year in New York City from March 27 to 29. This conference was the sixtieth in the...
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Durer in Venice
Albrecht Durer traveled to Venice in the latter half of 1505 and stayed until early in 1507. It seems that he had planned this journey for a while but an outbreak of plague in Nuremburg apparently...
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Giorgione: "La Tempesta"
In “Giorgione’s Tempest”, famed Italian art historian Salvatore Settis discussed practically every important commentary on Giorgione’s most beautiful, famous, and mysterious painting. The book was...
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