Giorgione - Finestre sull'Arte

Giorgione's Tempest, the mystery no one has yet solved

Few paintings in the history of art have caused as much talk and discussion as Giorgione 's The Tempest (Giorgio Barbarelli; Castelfranco Veneto, 1478 - Venice, 1510), preserved at the Accademia Gallery in Venice, a work of art exactly as mysterious ...
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At the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Giorgione's Portrait of a Young Man on loan from Budapest

From March 31, 2022, the Portrait of a Young Man made by Giorgione in about 1503, which is kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, will be on display at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. The painting, which will be placed in Room VIII on th...
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Nymphs and Venuses in the early 16th century Veneto, from Giorgione to Titian: love in all its meanings

The installation of the Uffizi rooms dedicated to the Venetian and Tuscan sixteenth century that opened in spring 2019 allows us to embrace, at a single glance, two extraordinary works placed in two different but communicating rooms, by two pai...
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The foundation of the Mona Lisa and the mascara of Giorgione's Old Woman.

The most famous painting in the world is the Mona Lisa, yet no one has really seen it (fig. 1). In the sense that no one has seen it as it is under the thick layer of dirt and oxidized paint that covers it. Right now the woman's skin has ...
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Giorgione's "Old Woman" before and after. All about the restoration of the Venetian masterpiece

The restoration of the Vecchia, a masterpiece by Giorgione (Castelfranco Veneto, 1478 - Venice, 1510),has been completed . The work, kept at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, will remain admired by the Venetian public for a few days before l...
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Labyrinths of the heart: an exhibition in Rome on feelings in the art of Giorgione and the early 16th century

"To love without bitterness is not possible," sentenced Perottino, the unhappy lover protagonist of the first book of Pietro Bembo's Asolani, a treatise in the form of a dialogue on love, composed between 1497 and 1502 and published in 1505: it w...
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An exhibition in Rome on Giorgione to explore the labyrinths of the heart

Kicking off tomorrow until September 17, 2017 is"Labyrinths of the Heart. Giorgione and the Seasons of Feeling between Venice and Rome," an exhibition that runs between Palazzo Venezia and the National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo. The exhibition is...
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Giorgione's Sunset, one of the most striking landscapes in art history

If I had to name two or three of the most fascinating painters in the history of art, on one name I would have no doubt, and I would assign a place in this special ranking to Giorgione. It is of him that I want to tell you about in this post.... or r...
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