Giorgione: Castelfranco 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...
View ArticleValentin de Boulogne at the Met
Last week my wife and I finally got to see the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition, Valentin de Boulogne, Beyond Caravaggio, that closes today after a run of three months. The Met did a remarkable job of...
View ArticleTitian: Assunta or Assumption of Mary
Titian’s Assunta, the magnificent, huge altarpiece that dominates the basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, the Franciscan center in Venice, established him as the foremost painter in Venice, and...
View ArticleTitian: Sacred and Profane Love*
Perhaps the most spectacular work of art in the magnificent collection of Rome’s Borghese Gallery is Titian’s “Sacred and Profane Love,” one of the great masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance. Early...
View ArticleTitian: Madonna of the Rabbit
Titian’s so-called “Madonna of the Rabbit,” currently hangs in the Louvre whose website notes the popular title but more accurately labels the painting as “The Virgin and Child with St. Catherine and a...
View ArticleJ.P. Morgan's Madonnas
One of my favorite art venues in New York City is the Morgan Library, the former home of famed financier and collector J.P. Morgan. My wife and I and a friend visited the Morgan early this summer to...
View ArticleTitian: Presentation of the Virgin
David Rosand’s “Titian’s Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple and the Scuola della Carita” appeared in the Art Bulletin in March, 1976. * It would be hard to imagine a more thorough and better...
View ArticleRenaissance Journey: Giorgione,Titian, and Michelangelo
My wife and I just returned from a two week visit to Italy to see some of the paintings that I have written about over the past few years. It was a very meaningful trip for us since it will probably be...
View ArticleGiorgione: "Discovery of Paris" ***
A “lost” Giorgione painting which has been misidentified for almost 500 years can shed new light on the work and career of the most mysterious and perhaps the greatest of all Venetian...
View ArticleGiorgione: A "Notte" for Vittore Beccaro
In my last post I revisited my interpretation of a painting by Giorgione that has been lost but that still exists in seventeenth century copies. It is usually called the Discovery of Paris but I have...
View ArticleGiorgione: Tempest "Pentimenti"
I did not include a discussion of the "pentimenti" in the "Tempesta" in my original paper because I believed that the painting should be evaluated on what Giorgione finally decided he wanted the viewer...
View ArticleGiorgione: 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...
View ArticleGiorgione's Tempest: The Solitary Bird on the Rooftop 2017
A dozen years after seeing the subject of Giorgione's Tempest as "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt", I have found no reason to change my interpretation. Everything I have read since 2005 has only...
View ArticleBosch Exhibition: Venice 2017
When my wife and I visited Venice last October, our primary objective was to see Giorgione’s Tempest. It was most likely our final trip to Italy, and I wanted to see the famous painting one more time....
View ArticleGiorgione: Tempest and Others
There is a painting, identified as "Allegory", in the Philadelphia Museum of Art that bears a striking resemblance to Giorgione’s “Tempest,” even though there is no trace of a storm.Palma Vecchio:...
View ArticleGiorgione's Tempest: Soldier and Gypsy?
In 1530, 20 years after the death of Giorgione, Marcantonio Michiel saw the painting that would become known as the "Tempest" in the home of Venetian patrician, Gabriele Vendramin. In his notes Michiel...
View ArticleGiorgione and Paris Bordone: A Virile St. Joseph
In interpreting the "Tempest" as "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt," I discussed the reasons for Giorgione's unusual portrayal of St. Joseph as young and virile. I also provided another example in...
View ArticleGiorgione's Tempest: The Broken Columns
Giorgione: TempestThe broken columns so prominently displayed in the mid-ground of Giorgione's Tempest are a significant iconographical marker in this famous painting. Practically, every commentator...
View ArticleGiorgione: Maria Lactans
In 2006, when I first interpreted Giorgione’s Tempest as the “Rest on the Flight into Egypt”, I acknowledged that the nudity of the Woman in the painting was a great difficulty. A nude Madonna is so...
View ArticleGiorgione: Marian Symbols in the Tempest
If it wasn’t for the nudity of the Woman in Giorgione’s Tempest, we would easily recognize the painting as a version of “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt.” The broken columns in the mid-ground are...
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