The Tempest, c.1505 by Giorgio da Castelfranco Giorgione
Canvas Print - 18034-GGC
Location: Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, ItalyOriginal Size: 82 x 73 cm
Giclée Canvas Print | $74.75 USD
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Painting Information
The sense of mystery begins with Giorgione’s painterly technique - a softly modulated brushwork that ties forms and atmosphere into a single, enveloping tapestry. At first glance, the painting’s surface seems straightforward, but closer inspection reveals subtle gradations of color and light that tease the eye. A patch of dark foliage blurs into the overcast sky; the languid water, dark near the shore, becomes an almost luminous green further back. This hazy blend of figures and environment reflects an experimental style characteristic of early sixteenth-century Venetian art. It is here, in the nuanced layering of translucent glazes, that one detects the artist’s deft control of mood and tone. Although the figures are defined with precision, especially the young soldier in his richly patterned garments, the overall handling is fluid, suggesting a unity between people, landscape, and the charged atmosphere overhead.
The arrangement of the figures, placed on either side of the foreground, lends the composition a delicate balance. A nursing mother, entirely exposed save for the cloth draped over her shoulder, quietly challenges us to consider her tender humanity. The soldier stands to the left, one hand on a staff, observing both the woman and the softly winding stream behind her. A flimsy wooden bridge guides the viewer’s gaze toward the distant townscape, its buildings clustered beneath a gathering storm. That jagged flash of lightning across the upper sky provides the painting with its title - an apt symbol for the painting’s evocative uncertainties. Scholars have wrestled with the identities of the soldier and mother, proposing that the man might represent Silvio, and the woman Lavinia, based on a poem celebrating the Vendramin family, who likely commissioned this piece around 1504. Over the centuries, The Tempest journeyed from Gabriele Vendramin’s collection to Cristoforo Orsetti before joining the Manfrin holdings, and was ultimately acquired by the Italian state in 1856. Yet no matter how many theories emerge, the painting’s timeless power resides in its unanswered questions. Everything - from the moody sky to the contemplative figures - invites us to linger on the border between what is named and what remains elusive, hinting at a story beneath the surface that refuses to be settled.
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