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Titian: Sacred and Profane Love, the Relief
Titian’s so-called Sacred and Profane Love is one of the most important and mysterious paintings of the Renaissance. One of its most mysterious features is the relief on the front of the sarcophagus...
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Adam and Eve on Titian's Relief
In my interpretation of Titian’s “Sacred and Profane Love” I identified the subject of the mysterious painting as the “Conversion of Mary Magdalen.” Seeing the painting as a “sacred subject” opened the...
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Titian: Conversion of St. Paul
The meaning of the figures on the antique relief in the center of Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love has eluded scholars for centuries. In this post I would like to discuss the horse so prominently...
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Giorgione: Three Ages of Man*
Giorgione’s Three Ages of Man is another one of his paintings that has so far eluded identification. The name of the painting that now hangs in the Pitti Palace is pure guesswork stemming only from the...
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Titian: Pastoral Concert
The Pastoral Concert or Concert Champetre that now hangs in the Louvre is universally recognized as one of the world’s great masterpieces. Usually dated around 1510-1511 it is surrounded, like other...
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Titian: Memorial to Giorgione
This post is designed to draw attention to an interpretation of the Fete Champetre or Pastoral Concert published in 1999 by Dr. Christiane Joost- Gaugier. The article,“The mute poetry of the Fete...
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Michelangelo: Doni Tondo
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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Michelangelo: Doni Tondo Nudes
I published my interpretation of Michelangelo's Doni Tondo in installments on this site back in 2015. I published the whole paper on my website, MyGiorgione, on 7/7/2016. In my previous post I...
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Titian: 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...
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Giorgione, Titian, and Mary Magdalen
On October 4, 2010 I put up a post on this site that suggested that Mary Magdalen is the subject of Giorgione's Laura. Since that time I have put up a number of posts that have argued that other...
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Giorgione: Boy with an Arrow
As far as I know the most important iconographical detail in Giorgione’s Boy with an Arrow has largely been ignored. I must confess that in an earlier post on the painting, I also failed to see it. It...
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Giorgione: Judith
Although originally given to Raphael, scholars for over a century have agreed that Judith with the Head of Holofernes is an early work by Giorgione. According to recent catalogs, it was a...
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Giorgione: Man of Sorrows
In his monumental 2009 study of Giorgione, Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo began his discussion of the individual paintings with a work that is not usually given to the master from Castelfranco.*In a...
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Paris Bordone: Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine
Paris Bordone's depiction of the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine featured a young and virile St. Joseph in the center. Bordone's depiction confirmed my argument that the young man in Giorgione's...
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Palma Vecchio: Allegory, or Sacred Subject
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:...
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Lorenzo Lotto: Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine
In my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest as "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt" I explained the reasons why Giorgione chose to portray St. Joseph as a virile, young man. Shortly after Giorgione's...
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Titian: Presentation of the Virgin
Today I republish my review article on David Rosand's magisterial interpretation of Titian's Presentation of the Virgin. This article originally appeared here in September 2017 but I inadvertently...
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The Madonna in Art
In my interpretation of the Tempest as the “Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” I argued that the nudity of the Woman was Giorgione’s attempt to portray Mary as the Immaculate Conception. Although...
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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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Interpreting the Tempest: Salvatore Settis, Adam and Eve.
Last year the posts on Giorgione et al... were all devoted to the various interpretive discoveries that followed upon my initial intuition that Giorgione's Tempest had a sacred subject, "The Rest of...
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