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Giorgione: Christmas Stamp
Giorgione: Adoration of the ShepherdsIn 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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Giorgione: The Tempest
Since its inception in 2010 Giorgione et al... has received over 565000 page views. Followers of the site may have realized that for the past few years, I have been reproducing older posts. Old age has...
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Titian: Sacred and Profane Love
On a chance visit to Rome's Borghese Gallery in 2010, my wife and I entered a large upstairs room and were struck by Titian's famous painting, the so-called "Sacred and Profane Love." I turned to her...
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Giorgione: Three Ages of Man
Old age and diminished eyesight have practically brought my art history career to an end. As a result, in 2023 I have decided to reproduce my various interpretive discoveries once again on giorgione et...
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Titian: Pastoral Concert
Since 2013 I have argued that the so-called Pastoral Concert that hangs in the Louvre should be recognized as Titian's Homage to the Recently Deceased Giorgione. The full paper can now be found on...
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Michelangelo: Doni Tondo
This year I have been reprising my interpretations of some of the most famous and mysterious paintings of the Renaissance. I originally concentrated on the Venetian Renaissance but in 2015 took a...
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Michelangelo: Doni Tondo--Behold the Lamb of God
So far this year I have been re-posting my interpretations of famous but mysterious Renaissance paintings. In my previous post, I put up the first part of my interpretation of Michelangelo's Doni...
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Michelangelo: Doni Tondo Nudes
I published my interpretation of Michelangelo's Doni Tondo in installments on this site back in 2015. The complete paper can now be read or downloaded at academia.edu. I have decided to re-post it...
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Giorgione: Discovery of Paris
Dr. Francis P. DeStefano: Giorgione: "Encounter with the Robbers on the Flight into Egypt” A “lost” Giorgione painting which has been misidentified for almost 500 years can shed new...
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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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Giorgione: Judith
This year I have been posting my various interpretive discoveries on this site. The following discussion of Giorgione's Judith is the eighth in the series.Although originally given to Raphael,...
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Giorgione: Boy with an Arrow
This year I have been re-posting my various interpretive essays that followed upon my discovery back in 2005 that Giorgione's Tempest, the most famous painting by the Venetian Renaissance master, has...
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Giorgione: Laura or Mary Magdalen?
I have argued on this site that Giorgione’s Portrait of a Young Woman, commonly called “Laura” could actually be his version of “The Conversion of Mary Magdalen.” I believe that I am not the first to...
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Titian: Flora or Mary Magdalen
The following post originally appeared on Giorgione et al... on March 14, 2012. Since the beginning of this year, I have been revisiting my original interpretations of famous but mysterious...
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Giorgione: Three Philosophers or Three Magi
This year on Giorgione et al... I have been reprising my interpretive discoveries on Giorgione and other Renaissance masters. I am not the first to claim that the three men in...
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GiorgioneL Man of Sorrows
Back in 2011 I identified a painting often called "Homage to a Poet" as Giorgione's version of the Man of Sorrows. I reprise it here even though I believe that more work needs to be done. Nevertheless,...
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Pa;ma Vecchio: Allegory, or Rest on the Flight into Egypt.
This year I have been re-posting my interpretations of some mysterious Renaissance paintings by Giorgione and his contemporaries. Here is the latest, a painting, identified as Allegory in the...
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Paris Bordone: Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine
This year I have been posting my various Renaissance art discoveries, and while there is no doubt about the subject of Paris Bordone's depiction of The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, I believe that...
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Lorenzo Lotto: Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine
In my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest as "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt" I explained the reasons why Giorgione chose to portray St. Joseph as a virile, young man. Shortly after Giorgione's...
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Raphael: Vision of Ezekiel?
I believe that the small painting attributed to Raphael depicts the vision of St. John on the island of Patmos, and not the vision of Ezekiel. See below for my interpretation of this paining that...
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