Zorzi da Castelfranco, better known as Giorgione (Italian for “tall George"), was one of the most influential Venetian painters of the High Renaissance. The Tempest, oil on canvas by Giorgione, c. 1505; in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice.

SCALA/Art Resource, New York The Sleeping Venus (c. 1510) was left unfinished at Giorgione’s death. Analysis of the Tempest The fame of Giorgione, an important contributor to Venetian painting during the High Renaissance, rests chiefly on his mysterious, poetic paintings like The Tempest. Despite considerable discussion by art historians, the meaning of the scene remains elusive. 77 × 74 cm. Displayed alongside antiquities and other works by Giorgione in the Vendramin palace, The Tempest likely expressed its owner’s personal magnificence, cultured taste, and intellectual acumen.

Michiel stated that the task of adding the landscape background fell to Titian. The Tempest (Italian La Tempesta) is a Renaissance painting by the Italian master Giorgione dated between 1506 and 1508. Though not much is known about his personal life, Giorgione studied under Giovanni Bellini … In Giorgione: Works The Tempest is a milestone in Renaissance landscape painting, with its dramatization of a storm about to break. Here is the kind of poetic interpretation of nature that the Renaissance writers Pietro Bembo and Jacopo Sannazzaro evoked.

Originally commissioned by the Venetian noble Gabriele Vendramin, the painting is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, Italy. Vivid effects of weather and light are signature artistic devices for the artist. This feeling for nature is probably also intimately…