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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
- Poesie: depict nude females, inland scapes
ReplyDelete- 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