Giorgione

Artist: Giorgione (*1477/1478; †25.10.1510) Title: The Adoration of the Shepherds The Adoration of the Shepherd about 1505, oil on panel, 35 4/5" x 43 4/5" (91 x 111cm) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA This essay attempts to describe analyze and evaluate the famous painting "The Adoration of the Shepherd" by Giorgione (originally Giorgio Barbarelli). In the following essay there will be three main sections: 1 Inventory - (WHAT?) 2 Formal Analysis - (HOW?) 3 Interpretation/Meaning

Giorgione was a unique artist and had a wondering mind that led him to create many valuable works of art including “homage to a poet”. The painting is depiction of a god named Saturn that was exiled by his son Zeus. Before zeus was born saturn ate all his six kids in order for them not to take over. When zeus was born saturn's wife Rhea tricked him into eating a rock instead of his son. The painting is of a hortus conclus or a closed garden that zeus left saturn in. Saturn has a pained look on his

Mazzocco defines Humanism as “a system of thought that focuses on humans and their values, capacities, and worth; a cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized human potential to attain excellence and promoted direct study of the literature, art, and civilization of classical Greece and Rome.” In other words, Humanists were more curious about life in the present and focused on the achievements of the individual. Hence, instead of religious issues, humanists examined worldly

Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian, was an Italian 16th century Venetian painter. Biographies were written when Titian was alive; however his birthday is still unknown. One account was written by a close friend of his, Lodovico Dolce who says in his book, “Dialogue on Painting” that Titian was about twenty years old in 1507 when he was working on his painting “Fondaco dei Tedeschi.” However, in a letter Titian wrote to the king of Spain in 1571 he claims to be ninety-five years old, putting his

Throughout his life, Titian contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance art, painting, altarpieces, and portraits. Titian was an Italian painter from the mountain range of the Dolomites. From a young age Titian was very clever and interested in the arts. Titian’s style of paint and brushwork helped create some of the most influential works of the the Renaissance art (source from bibliography). In the three pieces Assumption of the Virgin, A Man with a Quilted Sleeve, and Portrait of the

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Venus of Urbino demonstrates a beautiful, young woman, Venus, lying nude on what appears to be a reclined couch or bed. However, the woman illustrated means much more than merely a nude woman. There have been many interpretations of this beautiful woman over the years but many art historians agree that the Venus of Urbino has to do unambiguously with the male sexual desire for the female nude body. Tiziano Vecellio, also documented, as Titian was an Italian painter. He was born sometime around 1470-1480

masterpieces that are still revered by the modern world. One of these great artist and a notable figure in the Italian High Renaissance Movement, along with Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael, was Giorgio da Castelfranco, better known as Giorgione. Giorgione,

Giorgione, Giorgio da Castelfranco, Zorzi da Castelfranco, Giorgio of Castelfranco, Zorzon, Zorzi—whichever name he was known by, Giorgione was one of the greatest renaissance artists of his time, painting the famous The Tempest, among many others. Born in 1478 in Castlefranco Veneto, Italy, very little is known about his life. His parents are not known, and we don’t know how he lived his life. He did..basically nothing for the first 20 years of his life until it was discovered that he could