![]() The man’s clothing identifies him as a member of the Companions of the Order of the Stocking a well-known fraternity among the young aristocrats in Venice. ![]() On the opposite of the stream is a fashionably dressed young man stares lecherously at the woman but while he is smiling at her but the woman’s gaze is directed at the viewer not the man. Now as we look at the painting we see in the foreground to the right there is a nude woman that is sitting on a small bank overlooking the creek while holding a baby to her breast and she also uses her thigh to offer additional protection and cover for the child. The Tempest is seemingly a painting of two unrelated halves which has confused many artists and art critics since the painting’s creation with the two seemingly unrelated halves being the foreground and the background. The Tempest was reportedly commissioned by a Venetian nobleman named Gabriele Vendramin and is one of the earliest paintings to be dominated by the landscape even with its allegorical motifs. Giorgione unlike many artists of the High Renaissance who were also trained at the Venetian School who favored a more sensualist approach and therefore a less intellectual approach to art whereas Giorgione preferred to ensure there were hidden meanings in his work more along the lines of Leonardo, Michelangelo and other artists from the Florentine Renaissance with that being said the overall meaning of The Tempest has eluded both artists and art historians. Giorgione was trained by the Father of the Venetian School Giovanni Bellini,Giorgione developed his own style of soft focus painting that was not unlike that of Leonardo Da Vinci as it incorporated more landscape than what was expected during the High Renaissance as most of the art looked towards the ideas of beauty and humanism for inspiration and also included a more gradualist approach to application of color. The painting itself is a oil painting and mainly why Giorgione became famous for painting poetic paintings like “The Tempest” which although composed as a landscape painting, “The Tempest” includes figures as well as a host of complex allusions which caused the biographer of the Italian Renaissance to note that even he didn’t fully understand Giorgione’s pictures. ![]() The Tempest painted by the Italian High Renaissance master Giorgione is an exemplar piece of what a Renaissance artist could do and is shrouded in mystery as to the intention of the piece itself by the artist as he left no record behind for art historians to discern the meaning of this masterpiece from. Credit to /masterworks/masterworks/1508_girogione_tempest for the image of this masterpiece. ![]()
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