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Giorgione: Tempest Pentimenti
I did not include a discussion of the "pentimenti" in the "Tempest" in my original paper because I believed that the painting should be evaluated on what Giorgione finally decided he wanted the viewer...
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Interpreting the Tempest: Paris and Oenone
In his essay, “The ‘Favola’ in Giorgione’s Tempesta,” in the 2004 Giorgione exhibition catalog, Jurgen Rapp found the subject of the painting in the mythological story of Paris and Oenone. Rapp took...
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Giorgione's Tempest: Lucretian Interpretation
In 2003 Stephen J. Campbell argued that the Tempest was “a portrait of didactic or philosophical poetry,” whose source could be found in the “De Rerum Natura,” the most famous work of the Roman poet...
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Interpreting the Tempest: A Gipsy Woman with a Soldier
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...
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Interpretating the Tempest: Plato
In my interpretation of the Tempest as the "Rest of the Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt," I identified the nude Woman nursing her infant as the Madonna, and the colorfully dressed man on the side...
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Giorgione's Tempest: a Vergilian Interpretation
In my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest as the "Rest of the Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt," I did not address the many other interpretations. Not only did I want to concentrate on the...
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Giorgione's Tempest: A Vision
Rainer Metzger’s essay, “Everyday Life and Allegory, An Attempt to Understand Giorgione’s Tempesta” was one of four separate and contradictory attempts to interpret the Tempest in the 2004 Giorgione...
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Giorgione's Tempest: Bernard Aikema's Interpretation
In December 2010 I attended a symposium at Princeton University honoring Patricia Fortini Brown, Professor Emeritus of Art and Archaeology at Princeton, on her retirement this year after 27 years at...
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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 Gabriele Vendramin
Titian's depiction of Venetian patrician Gabriele Vendramin and his brother Andrea venerating (along with Andrea's seven children) a relic of the True Cross is as much a primary source about the owner...
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Tempest Patron
Giorgione's "Tempest" and the so-called "Discovery of Paris" might have been the two notte that Isabella D' Este sought to acquire on hearing the news of the painter's death in 1510. It is interesting...
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Historical Imagination and the Venetian Renaissance
In my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest I argued that the famous painting has a "sacred subject," "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt." Since my initial discovery back in 2005, subsequent reading...
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Review: Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice
I owe a great debt to the late Rona Goffen. When I originally saw the nudity of the woman in the Tempest as Giorgione’s way of depicting the Immaculate Conception of Mary, I just assumed that the...
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Review: Leo Steinberg on Renaissance Nudity
Leo Steinberg:The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion.In his controversial and ground-breaking 1983 study, famed art historian Leo Steinberg explored the theological basis for...
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Giorgione and Mantegna: Exceptional Painters
The following review article was first published on Giorgione et al... in 2011 as an attempt to understand the "why" of Giorgione's Tempest. I repost it today with no significant alteration.In The Art...
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Review: Giorgione Scientific Examination
In 2004, two famous museums, the Accademia in Venice and the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, worked together to mount a ground-breaking Giorgione exhibition. The Kunsthistorisches agreed to send it’s...
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Review: Margaret King, Venetian Humanism
I do not know how Margaret L. King’s, Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance was received when it first appeared in 1986, but it was a real eye opener for me more than 25 years later. I...
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Giorgione Catalogs
The years leading up to the five hundredth anniversary in 2010 of the death of Giorgione saw the publication of six major Giorgione catalogs. This truly remarkable publishing phenomenon marked an...
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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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The Madonna in Art
In my interpretation of Giorgione's 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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