Giorgione

The Tempest — Venetian mood painting

The most mysterious figure in Renaissance art. Dead at 33, leaving barely a dozen attributed works — but those works changed painting. The Tempest is the first landscape in Western art where mood and atmosphere matter more than subject. Titian was his pupil and finisher of his paintings.

Key works

• The Tempest~1508— The first modern landscape — mood over narrative
  Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
• Sleeping Venus~1510— Completed by Titian — the reclining nude archetype
  Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

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