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The Tempest was an important work in Renaissance landscape painting, and one of the 5 surviving works by Giorgione. The painting depicts a storm moving towards two main figures, with a child in the arms of the woman. The male figure looks at the…

The Tempest, painted by Giorgione c. 1505, is considered a groundbreaking piece of artwork for the time it was created in. Breaking traditional Venetian style, Giorgione painted a piece highly focused on the landscape, with a variety of hidden…

The Tempest was one of the first landscape dominant works of the Venetian Renaissance. The work was commissioned by Gabriele Vendramin, and was completed only a few short years before Giorgione’s early death from the plague [1]. Due to the timing, it…

In this painting, we see a penitent Mary Magdalene worshipping the heavens. Titian portrays Mary Magdalene realistically in multiple ways. First, with regards to the composition of the image, Titian places an ointment jar right next to her, providing…

Jacopo Tintoretto was commissioned by the Scuola Grande di San Marco in 1547 to create a painting for the Sala Capitolare [1]. The artist came from a family of cloth dyers in Venice. He practiced drawing and painting from a young age, landing a spot…

Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1465 – c. 1520) painted The Lion of St. Mark in 1516 on commission for the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi near the Rialto district [1]. It features a large lion in its center––which represents the Republic’s patron saint St. Mark and…

When the audience first looks at Bellini's work their eyes are drawn towards the group of mythological figures in the center of the painting.  On the right hand side, we are first greeted by a nymph clothed in glistening white clothes that flows with…

     In this oil painting, we immediately see a contrast in color and shading between the foreground, which contains Greco-Roman mythological figures, and the background, with the jagged and rough landscape. Immediately, the viewer notices the bright…

Paolo Veronese’s The Family of Darius before Alexander depicts the family of Darius III pleading for mercy to Alexander. Mistakenly, the king of Persia’s mother addresses not the Greek king but his closest advisor––Hephaestion [1]. Rather than treat…

The Choice Between Virtue and Vice Veronese depicts the situation of Hercules in Greek mythology encountering two women and facing a tough choice. Vice shows him a life of comfort, enticing him with the riches of life; yet Virtue summons him to work…