The Tempest is Giorgione's most enigmatic painting. It is a depiction of Giorgione's own family, of the "family of man" tale from Boccaccio, or of the myth of Apollo's birth? In this remarkable study, Salvatore Settis uses the mystery of the painting to shed light on the relationship between artist, patron, work, and critic. The result is a brilliant piece of detective work in the history and sociology of culture that stresses the function of Giorgione's art for the emerging, classically educated connoisseur elite of sixteenth-century Venice.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Editorial Reviews
Language Notes
Text: English, Italian (translation)
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
enjoyment pure and simple,
By A Customer
This review is from: Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject (Paperback)
An absolutely brilliant book, indeed! It is written with a lot of intellectual vigour, Settis' knowledge of the subject is breathtaking, but what is by far the most impressing feature of this book is the author's ability to connect very different fields of academic research: sociology, history, philology. It is an absolute must for all students and scholars of arts, a true example how a detailed analysis of a single painting reveals to us much about the era it was painted in, as well as about the times when its meaning was attempted to be deciphered. We learn here much about the Italian Rennaisance, Giorgione and his contemporaries, but also about centuries which came after -- what they did with his paintings and how they tried to adjust their meanings to their contemporary tastes and preferences. A real diamond.
2 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
over analyzing and wrong,
This review is from: Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject (Paperback)
with all of the analyses offered in the book it is surprising that none of them seem right. this book's redeeming points have nothing to do with the subject. one of these points is learning how to approach a work of art that you know nothing about.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence:
There is a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in which 'a very old man with enormous wings' touches ground near a sleepy South American dwelling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
iconographic schema, photo property, three philosophers, dei disegni, hidden subject, broken pillars, iconographic tradition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gabriele Vendramin, Taddeo Contarini, Giovanni Bellini, Adoration of the Magi, Archduke Leopold William, David Teniers the Younger, Gasparo Contarini, Middle Ages, Palazzo Ducale, Jacopo Bellini, Sacred Allegory, Giovanni Ram, Leone Ebreo, National Gallery, Santa Maria, Bishop Bernward, Francesco Colonna, Gentile Bellini, Marcantonio Michiel, San Petronio, Santa Fosca, Santa Trinita New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
There is a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in which 'a very old man with enormous wings' touches ground near a sleepy South American dwelling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
iconographic schema, photo property, three philosophers, dei disegni, hidden subject, broken pillars, iconographic tradition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gabriele Vendramin, Taddeo Contarini, Giovanni Bellini, Adoration of the Magi, Archduke Leopold William, David Teniers the Younger, Gasparo Contarini, Middle Ages, Palazzo Ducale, Jacopo Bellini, Sacred Allegory, Giovanni Ram, Leone Ebreo, National Gallery, Santa Maria, Bishop Bernward, Francesco Colonna, Gentile Bellini, Marcantonio Michiel, San Petronio, Santa Fosca, Santa Trinita New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 14
books:
See all 14 books this book cites
- Pagan Mysteries In The Renaissance by Edgar Wind on page 63, and Back Matter
- Giovanni Bellini by Giles Robertson in Back Matter
- Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger in Back Matter
- Art and Anarchy by Edgar Wind in Back Matter
- The Economics of Taste (3 Volume Set) by Gerald Reitlinger in Back Matter
See all 14 books this book cites
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
|
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
