Giorgione's Tempest Interpreting the Hidden Subject

The Tempestis 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.Settis, Salvatore is the author of 'Giorgione's Tempest Interpreting the Hidden Subject' with ISBN 9780226748948 and ISBN 0226748944.