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Giovanni Bellini: Pieta
I began publishing Giorgione et al... on September 7, 2010 with a post containing abstracts of interpretive discoveries I had made over the previous five years. Since then the site has received over...
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Giorgione: Sleeping Venus
I began posting on Giorgione et al... on November 7, 2010, a few months after presenting my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America held that...
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Titian: Pastoral Concert or Homage to Giorgione
This year I am reprising the most viewed posts on Giorgione et al... Since its inception in 2010, the site has garnered almost 540,000 page views. An introductory essay on the Pastoral Concert ranks...
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Giovanni Bellini: St. Francis in the Desert
Today, I repost a review essay on John Fleming's study of Giovanni Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert, now in the Frick Museum. since its original posting on 9/28/2014, it has...
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Duccio: Maesta
Number 5 on the list of top viewed posts on Giorgione et al... is a brief post originally written ten years ago directing readers to a study of Duccio's Maesta by my English friend and correspondent...
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Titian: Sacred and Profane Love
A post, dated May 6, 2012, on Titian's famous painting, The Sacred and Profane Love, has been the sixth most popular post on Giorgione et al... since its inception in 2010. It has received over 3200...
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Giorgione: the Solitary Bird in the Tempest
In my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest as "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt" I identified the nude Woman nursing the Child; the Man holding the staff; the broken columns; the City in the...
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Mantegna and Giorgione: Exceptional Painters
I first published this post on Andrea Mantegna on March 26, 2011. It has received over 2000 page views and ranks #7 on my list of most viewed posts. The post was derived from a study by Henk van Os,...
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Giorgione: Adoration of the Shepherds
The following post on Giorgione's "Adoration of the Shepherds" is the eighth most popular post on Giorgione et al... since its inception in 2010. It originally appeared on December 15, 2015.Giorgione:...
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The Nudes in Michelangelo's Doni Tondo
This essay on the nudes in Michelangelo's Doni Tondo was originally posted on this site on July 21, 2015. It was the third and concluding part of my interpretation of the painting. It has been the...
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Patinier and Giorgione
So far this year I have been re-posting the most viewed posts that have appeared on Giorgione et al... since its inception in 2010. For the remainder of the year I plan to feature posts that have not...
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Fra Bartolomeo and Giorgione
The following post was originally published in the early days of Giorgione et al... on 4/30/2011. I re-post it here in somewhat more readable form, and add a link to paintings by Paris Bordone and...
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Titian: Assumption of Mary
Titian’s huge altarpiece of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven is by far the most well-known and spectacular painting of that subject. The painting is more than 22 feet high and 11 feet wide and was...
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Emile Male: the Gothic Image
Emile Male was a pioneering nineteenth century French historian who almost single-handedly rediscovered the magnificent art of the French cathedrals of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth...
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Signorelli and Giorgione
The broken columns and ruins in Giorgione's Tempest must be discussed in any plausible interpretation. In my interpretation I showed that they were commonplace in depictions of the "Rest on the Flight...
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Grimani Breviary and Giorgione
In my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest as "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt" I argued that Giorgione depicted the Madonna as nude because of her Immaculate Conception. In researching I was...
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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 apparently an outbreak of plague in Nuremburg...
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Renaissance Discoveries
I originally published this post on September 15, 2015. It detailed the interpretive discoveries I had made over the previous 10 years. I repeat it here for new readers, and include an abstract of my...
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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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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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