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The Tempest is Giorgione's most enigmatic painting. It is a depiction of Giorgione's own family, of the "family of man" tale from Boccaccio, or of the myth of Apollo's birth? In this remarkable study, Salvatore Settis uses the mystery of the painting to shed light on the relationship between artist, patron, work, and critic. The result is a brilliant piece of detective work in the history and sociology of culture that stresses the function of Giorgione's art for the emerging, classically educated connoisseur elite of sixteenth-century Venice.
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Text: English, Italian (translation)
Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject FROM THE PUBLISHER
'The Tempest' is Giorgione's most enigmatic painting. Is it a depiction of Giorgione's own family or for the 'family of man, ' of a tale from Boccaccio or of the myth of Apollo's birth? In this remarkable study, Salvatore Settis uses the mystery of the painting to shed light on the relationship between artist, patron, work and critic. He examines the hypotheses and arguments that have surrounded 'The Tempest' over the centuries and develops a new and highly original approach.
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