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Giorgione: Lost Discovery of Paris
In his massive 2009 study of Giorgione, Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo attached great importance to a seventeenth century copy by David Teniers of a now lost Giorgione painting. Dal Pozzolo accepted the...
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Giorgione: Three Philosophers
Giorgione’s so-called “Three Philosophers,” that now hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, is one of a handful of paintings universally attributed to him. If there was ever any doubt, it was...
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Giorgione and Marcantonio Michiel
The notes on paintings in sixteenth century Venetian homes made by Venetian patrician and art collector Marcantonio Michiel are perhaps the most important primary source for the works of Giorgione....
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Giorgione and Morto da Feltro
Example of grotesqueIn his brief life of Lorenzo Luzzo, commonly known as Morto da Feltro, Giorgio Vasari wrote that Morto worked with Giorgione on the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. Morto was from Feltre in...
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Lorenzo Lotto: Crucifixion
Italian Renaissance master Lorenzo Lotto was born in Venice around 1480 but spent most of his long career working in provincial towns. Perhaps this is why he is not as well known as Giorgione and...
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Titian: Assumption of Mary
Titian’s huge altarpiece of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven is by far the most well-known and spectacular painting of that subject. The painting is more than 22 feet high and 11 feet wide and was...
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Giorgione Scholarship
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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Leonardo: Last Supper
The following review of Leo Steinberg's: “Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper” originally appeared as a guest post on Hasan Niyazi's Art History blog, Three Pipe Problem in 2012. After Hasan's premature...
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Giovanni Bellini: St. Francis in the Desert
For over 50 years the Frick Museum in New York City has been my favorite museum. It is a small, easily navigated site quite unlike the Metropolitan only a few blocks away on Fifth...
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The Vision of Ezekiel
The following discussion of the so-called "Vision of Ezekiel" originally appeared as a guest post on Hasan Niyazi's popular Art history blog, "Three Pipe Problem." This month marks the first...
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Raphael: Czartoryski Portrait
Today, October, 28, marks the first anniversary of the death of Hasan Niyazi, a young art history buff and blogger from Australia. Before his very untimely death at about the same age as his idol...
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Giorgione, Vasari, and a Judith Fresco.
In his “Lives of the Artists” Giorgio Vasari placed his brief biography of Giorgione right after Leonardo da Vinci’s and ranked the young Venetian master, who died tragically in 1510 at about the age...
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Giorgione: Tempesta Pentimenti
In my interpretation of Giorgione’s “Tempest” as “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt” I did not include a discussion of the "pentimenti"or “changes of mind” in the painting. I believed that the painting...
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The Immaculate Conception in the Art of the Renaissance
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's "Adoration of the Shepherds", often called the "Allendale Adoration", is one of the most popular paintings in Washington's National Gallery. At this time of year it is a Christmas card...
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Giorgione, Titian, and the Venetian Renaissance
Since 2005 I have made what I consider to be four “major” discoveries in the field of the Venetian Renaissance. I list them below along with some “minor” discoveries that have flowed from my initial...
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Norton Simon Duveen Exhibition Primadonna
Last year on a trip to California I visited the famed Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena to see a small painting ( 31.7 x 24.1 cm) that the Museum labels, “Head of a Venetian Girl.” The trustees of the...
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Michelangelo: Doni Tondo
Is the Madonna in Michelangelo’s famed Doni Tondo handing her infant son to St. Joseph, or is St. Joseph handing the child to her? This question is one of many that arise from a look at this painting...
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Michelangelo: Doni Tondo Revision I
Last month I posted my initial thoughts on Michelangelo's Doni Tondo. Further reflection and reading as well as comments from friends and readers have led me to revise my interpretation. Below, find...
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Doni Tondo Revision II: John the Baptist
In the Doni Tondo Michelangelo placed the Holy Family outside in a landscape. He used the setting of one of the most popular legendary subjects of the day, the encounter of the Holy Family with the...
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