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Doni Tondo Revision III: The Nudes in the Background
In recent years the five nude young men in the background of Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo have received as much, if not more, attention than the Holy Family in the foreground. There would appear to be no...
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Raphael, Giorgione, and the Flight into Egypt
In the Spring of 2010 I presented my interpretation of Giorgione's "Tempest" as "The Rest of the Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt" to a small panel at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society...
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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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Michelangelo Doni Tondo: A Further Note on the Nudes
Michelangelo: Doni TondoIn three previous posts on Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo I have argued that in the foreground the Madonna elevates her child in the same manner as the priest elevates the Host at...
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Giorgione and Titian: Renaissance Mysteries
This month marks the fifth anniversary of Giorgione et al... I created the blog at the suggestion of the late Hasan Niyazi, an Australian, whose blog, Three Pipe Problem, was becoming one of the most...
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Giorgione: Contemporary Sources
Giorgione is the most mysterious and perhaps the greatest of all Venetian Renaissance artists. Mysterious not only because so little is known about his short life, but also because no other great...
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Hasan Niyazi Correspondence
Hasan Niyazi, the creator of the very popular art history blog "Three Pipe Problem,"passed away at the end of October 2013. He was only in his early thirties. Hasan's family were Turkish Cypriots who...
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Giorgio Vasari on Giorgione
In his famous Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Giorgio Vasari included a brief account of the life and work of Giorgione, and featured it prominently right after the biography of Leonardo da Vinci....
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Giorgione: Adoration of the Shepherds
Giorgione: Adoration of the Shepherds (Allendale Adoration)National Gallery, Washington96.8cm x 110.5 cm, 35.7" x 43.5"Note:The following is a slightly modified version of an earlier post. I present it...
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Edward Hutton on Giorgione
I first discovered Giorgione and the Tempest in Edward Hutton's, Venice and Venetia, originally published in 1911.* The book was one of many that Hutton came to write on Italy, its regions, cities,...
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Giorgione: Portrait of a Young Man (Giustiniani)
This year London's Royal Academy of Arts is hosting an exhibition entitled, “In the Age of Giorgione,” from March 12 to June 6. The exhibition will bring together a number of paintings attributed to...
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Royal Academy Exhibition: In the Age of Giorgione
The Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, "In the Age of Giorgione" opened on March 12 to mixed reviews. Searching on line I found one reviewer who claimed that rather than restoring Giorgione's...
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Royal Academy Exhibition: Three Ages of Man
In the Age of Giorgione, currently on exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, has attracted a lot of attention in the British press. Questions of interpretation and attribution have...
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The Age of Giorgione: Three Landscapes
“In the Age of Giorgione”, the exhibition currently at the Royal Academy of the Arts in London, has generated much discussion about the attribution of many of the paintings on display. Giorgione, in...
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Giorgione: The Tempest
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the publication in the Masterpiece section of the Wall Street Journal of my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest as The Rest on the Flight into Egypt. The editor...
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Doni Tondo Bibliography
This week I have put the latest version of my interpretation of Michelangelo's Doni Tondo on my website, MyGiorgione. Last year at Giorgione et al... I published an initial exploration of the famous...
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Giorgione et al...: Table of Contents.
I started publishing Giorgione et al... six years ago at the suggestion of Hasan Niyazi, my late friend from Australia, who believed that it would receive a wide audience for my work on Giorgione,...
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Giorgione: Portrait of a Young Woman (Laura)
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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Giorgione: "Boy with an Arrow" or St. Sebastian
In earlier posts I have agreed with those who have claimed that the small painting by Giorgione called “Boy with an Arrow” is an image of St. Sebastian, one of the most popular male saints of the...
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