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The Tempest (Italian La Tempesta) is a Renaissance painting by the Italian master Giorgione dated between 1506 and 1508. Originally commissioned by the Venetian noble Gabriele Vendramin, the painting is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, Italy.
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A burst of lightning illuminates a countryside engulfed in a thunderstorm. Its sudden flash reveals a curious scene: a fashionably dressed man standing on a riverbank eyeing a nearly nude woman seated on the opposite shore nursing an infant. The figures are alone in an otherwise lush landscape that glows turquoise in the storm’s humid air. Groves o...
One of the central controversies viewers of The Tempest must face is making sense of its subject matter and meaning. Even sophisticated art connoisseurs in the sixteenth century puzzled over its imagery. The first recorded viewer in 1530 identified its figures but not any overarching narrative or theme. One of Giorgione’s earliest biographers, Gior...
The Tempest is among the first paintings to be labeled a “landscape” in Western art history. Giorgione thus plays a key role in the rising status of landscape painting during the early sixteenth century in Italy and northern Europe. Particularly in Venice, relatively small cabinet pictures such as The Tempestdepicting scenes with prominent outdoor ...
What distinguishes The Tempestfrom earlier small easel pictures produced in Venice is Giorgione’s exploitation of newly available painting technologies. The medium of oil paint applied to a canvas support was typically reserved for large-scale civic projects in Venice, such as those completed by the workshops of Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Carpacc...
The English poet Lord Byron rhapsodized about The Tempest in letters and his poem Beppo (1817), as did the Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt. Its impact is evident for Realist painters such as Edouard Manet, whose Le dèjeuner sur l’herbe(1863) was likely inspired by its pastoral setting. The American collector Isabella Stewart Gardner tried...
The Tempest is among the first paintings to be labeled a “landscape” in Western art history. Giorgione thus plays a key role in the rising status of landscape painting during the early sixteenth century in Italy and northern Europe. Particularly in Venice, relatively small. cabinet pictures.
The fame of Giorgione, an important contributor to Venetian painting during the High Renaissance, rests chiefly on his mysterious, poetic paintings like The Tempest.
Aug 20, 2022 · The Tempest is a 16th-century landscape by Giorgione, featuring a woman and a soldier in a pastoral setting. The painting has no clear meaning, but suggests various biblical or mythological interpretations.
- 1510 (Venice, Republic of Venice)
- The Tempest
- Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco
Oct 14, 2023 · Most probably commissioned by wealthy Venetian, Gabriele Vendramin c.1506, The Tempest is widely considered to be the earliest example of landscape painting in western art. It beautifully illustrates the mastery of colour, tone and blended light which was indicative of the work produced by Giorgione and the Venetian School.
‘The Tempest’ was created in c.1508 by Giorgione in High Renaissance style. Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
