Hesiod’s Theogony as Source of the Iconological Program of Giorgione’s ‘Tempesta’

The Poet, Amalthea, The Infant Zeus and The Muses

by Ursula Kirkendale and Warren Kirkendale

Book cover: Hesiod’s Theogony as Source of the Iconological Program of Giorgione’s ‘Tempesta’

Extent: 106 pages

Publisher: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Subjects: Art & Art History, Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Pocket Library of Studies in Art

Series volume number: 41

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2015)

ISBN: 9788822264084

Price: $34.00

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Giorgione’s “Tempesta” has been the most discussed enigma in the history of art, with over fifty different interpretations, based largely on ancient literary sources which were compared, not very convincingly, with very few elements of the painting. Hesiod’s “Theogony”, well known in Venice when the painting was made, explains more or less all of them, animate and inanimate, for the artist translated the poet’s words literally into visual images.

  • By (author) Ursula Kirkendale
  • By (author) Warren Kirkendale