The Tempest

Giorgione places a soldier and a nursing mother in a lush landscape beneath a gathering storm, with no agreed subject or story. Mood and atmosphere — not narrative — are the true subject, a novel idea for its time. It is a defining work of the Venetian Renaissance.

The Tempest

Giorgione

  • Datec. 1508
  • MovementHigh Renaissance
  • WhereGallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
  • RegionItaly