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Giorgione: Adoration of the Shepherds
This post originally appeared on this site on December 15, 2015. I do not challenge the traditional label of Giorgione's famous painting, but I do believe that there is much more going on in this...
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Renaissance Exhibition
At age 84 I know that I will be dead before the museums, galleries, and collections that house the mysterious paintings that I have interpreted since 2005 will ever change their labels despite anything...
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Review. John Fleming: From Bonaventura to Bellini
This year I plan to re-post some review essays that have appeared on Giorgione wt al... since its inception in 2010. Today, I repost an essay on John Fleming's study of Giovanni...
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Review: Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper
The following review of Leo Steinberg's, Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper originally appeared on this site on 9/18/2014. I reprise it here today as part of a series of review articles on books that...
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Review: Rona Goffen: Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice
The late Rona Goffen passed away on September 8, 2004 at the age of 60. By that time she had become one of the leading scholars in the field of the Venetian Renaissance. She was one of the few art...
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Review: Salvatore Settis: The Tempest
Here is another in a series of review articles of studies that have helped me in my work on Giorgione and the Venetian Renaissance. In the case of Professor Settis I feel like the proverbial dwarf...
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Review: David Rosand, Presentation of the Virgin
Today I republish my review article on David Rosand's magisterial interpretation of Titian's Presentation of the Virgin. Despite the depth and comprehensiveness of Rosand's interpretation, I did...
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Review: Margaret King, Venetian Humanism...
I do not know how Margaret L. King’s, Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance was received when it first appeared in 1986, but it was a real eye opener for me more than 25 years later. I...
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Review: Leo Steinberg, The Sexuality of Christ ...
Leo Steinberg:The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion.In his controversial and ground-breaking 1983 study, famed art historian Leo Steinberg explored the theological basis...
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Review: Henk van Os: The Art of Devotion
In The Art of Devotion Henk van Os argued that Andrea Mantegna deliberately sought to be an “exceptional painter.” As court painter of Mantua, Mantegna worked for an exclusive and well-to-do clientele....
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Review. Salvatore Settis: Castlefranco Altarpiece
Commentators have always regarded Giorgione’s “Castelfranco Altarpiece” as a unique and original work of art. It is Giorgione’s only known altarpiece, and although he used a traditional subject, he...
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Review. Emile Male: The Gothic Image
Emile Male was a pioneering nineteenth century French historian who almost single-handedly rediscovered the magnificent art of the French cathedrals of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth...
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Review: Anna Jameson
I am not ashamed to admit that I have used the writings of Anna Jameson, a now neglected nineteenth century English writer on Renaissance art, in my studies of Giorgione and Titian. First of all, I...
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Review: Giorgione Catalogs
The years leading up to the five hundredth anniversary in 2010 of the death of Giorgione saw the publication of six major Giorgione catalogs. This truly remarkable publishing phenomenon marked an...
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Review. Panofsky, 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 apparently an outbreak of plague in Nuremburg...
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Review: Charles Hope, Giorgione or Titian.
In 2003 the Council of the Frick Collection published an extended lecture by Charles Hope entitled “Giorgione or Titian? History of a Controversy.” * Hope’s essay was the inaugural lecture in a...
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Review: Tom Nichols: Giorgione's Ambiguity
Ambiguity is defined as the quality of being open to more than one interpretation. In Giorgione’s Ambiguity, Tom Nichols argues that the mystery surrounding so many of the paintings of the Venetian...
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The Immaculate Conception in Renaissance Art.
In my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest as "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt", I argued that Giorgione had the audacity to portray a nude Madonna in an attempt to depict Mary as the Immaculate...
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Giorgione: Adoration of the Shepherds
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: Tempest
Almost 20 years have gone by since I first interpreted Giorgione's Tempest, one of the most famous and mysterious paintings in the history of Western art, as "The Rest of the Holy Family on the Flight...
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