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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. Despite considerable discussion by art historians, the meaning of the scene remains elusive.
Dec 6, 2023 · 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.
Aug 20, 2022 · As one of only six surviving paintings attributed to Giorgione—who died at a young age— The Tempest has remained shrouded in mystery. The vividly colored work depicts an anonymous woman breastfeeding her baby on the right-hand side and a soldier carrying a long staff in the left corner.
Reputedly commissioned by the Venetian nobleman Gabriele Vendramin, The Tempest is one of the earliest paintings in which landscape dominates, despite its allegorical motifs.
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.
The Tempest is a milestone in Renaissance landscape painting, with its dramatization of a storm about to break. Here is the kind of poetic interpretation of nature that the Renaissance writers Pietro Bembo and Jacopo Sannazzaro evoked.
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.
