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Albrecht 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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Leo Steinberg: Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper
May 2, 2019 marked the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. I thought it might be appropriate to reprise a review article on Leo Steinberg's interpretation of the Last Supper that...
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Leonardo's Madonnas
This year marks the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. Last month I put up a review post of Leo Steinberg's interpretation of the Last Supper, and I would like to follow up...
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Morto da Feltre: Painter of Grotesques
In his brief life of Lorenzo Luzzo, commonly known as Morto da Feltre, Giorgio Vasari wrote that Morto worked with Giorgione on the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in 1507-8. Morto was from Feltre in the Veneto,...
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Jan van Scorel in Venice
Jan van Scorel, an artist born in the Netherlands around 1495, traveled to Venice to study around 1520, only ten years after the death of Giorgione. Scholars speculate that during his stay he became...
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Joachim Patenir: Painter of Landscapes
The popularity of the “Rest of the Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt” became an important factor in the development of landscape in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Artists,...
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Gerard David: Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Versions of the biblical episode on the flight into Egypt were very popular during the Renaissance. Although mentioned only briefly in the Bible, apocryphal legends were popular and formed the basis...
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Emile Male: The Gothic Image
West Rose WindowChartres “in reaching out to the immaterial through the material man may have fleeting visions of God.” Emile Male.Emile Male was a...
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Rona Goffen and the Venetian Renaissance
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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Doni Tondo: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph*
Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo is one of the greatest masterpieces of the High Renaissance. It is his only surviving panel painting and now hangs in the Uffizi in its original frame. Most scholars date it...
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Doni Tondo: 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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Doni Tondo: Nudes and Nephilim
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's Madonnas
In the first decade of the sixteenth century the work of Raphael indicates a strong interest in episodes on the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt. During his Florentine period (1504-1508) Raphael...
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Raphael: Vision of Ezekiel
Scholars still question Vasari's attribution to Raphael of a small painting called, The Vision of Ezekiel. I will leave the question of attribution to others but I do think that the subject of the...
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Giovanni Bellini: St. Francis in the Desert
For over 60 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 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
Scholars have expended more time dealing with the controversy that has surrounded the attribution to Giorgione of the so-called “Allendale Adoration of the Shepherds” than they have in trying to...
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Giorgione: The Tempest
No great work of art has mystified art historians and critics more than Giorgione’s Tempest, one of a handful of paintings definitively attributed to the Venetian Renaissance master. After his untimely...
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Giorgione: Discovery of Paris
A seventeenth century copy of a “lost” Giorgione painting, mis-identified as the birth or discovery of Paris for almost 500 years, can shed new light on the work and career of the most mysterious and...
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Titian: 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...
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