Saturday, April 24, 2010

Giorgione, The Tempest, 1506, perhaps commissioned by Gabriele Vendramin



  • numerous explanations - nursing woman as Eve
  • Venus as Ceres (goddess of grain) - Mother Earth
  • Cambraie wars with Padua - Venice wanted to regain Padua
  • Taken over by Carrara family
  • coats of arms + lion of St. Mark on different buildings
  • Doge asked men to regain Padua
    that was lost to a "tempest"
  • Tempest as a symbol of war
  • fortitude - broken coloumns
  • nurturing mother - charity/patriotism
  • Allegory for reclaiming land
  • about piecing together separate symbols than have one meaning (Steven Campbell)
  • Conversation piece
  • looks at Lucretia's On the Nature of Things - wandering males, landscape, broken columns and naked female
  • About constructing meaning - debates about poetry - paragone tradition
  • moralising and civilising benefit of poetry
  • Private detachment and reflection
  • visual forms of contemplation and poetry
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  1. UnknownApril 24, 2010 at 10:33 PM

    - Poesie: depict nude females, inland scapes
    - He is the foremost painter in this new type of painting
    - Debated interpretations
    - Linked to allegory:
    - Columns symbolize fortitude, nursing more is allegorical figure of charity
    - Allegorical figure of patriotism to venice, connected to vendramin family
    - Tempest could also be the unpredictable nature of war
    - Symbolizing poetry, poetry is the moralizing of the self—centered on idea of detachment and contemplation
    - Linked to domestic area of the bedroom
    - Studiolo: may have actually been used as a studiolo painting

    George

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