The Tempest
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Key facts
- Artist
- Giorgione
- Year
- c. 1508
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 83 cm × 73 cm (33 in × 29 in)
- Location
- Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
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Described at
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- painting
- Owned by
- Italy
- Genre
- landscape painting
- Depicts
- stream
- Movement
- High Renaissance
- Material used
- canvas
- Creator
- Giorgione
- Location
- Palazzo Priuli Manfrin
- Image
- Giorgione, The tempest.jpg
- Height
- 82
- Width
- 73
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- Commons category
- The Tempest by Giorgione
- inception
- 1506-00-00
- depicts Iconclass notation
- 26E
- native label
- La Tempesta
- copyright status
- public domain
- inventory number
- Cat.915
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/1932/02/15/archives/giorgione-tempest-is-bought-by-italy-painting-held-most-valuable.html
- title
- The Tempest
- time period
- High Renaissance
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tempest (Italian La Tempesta) is a Renaissance painting by the Italian master Giorgione dated between 1506 and 1508. Originally commissioned by the Venetian noble Gabriele Vendramin, the painting is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, Italy. Despite considerable discussion by art historians, the meaning of the scene remains elusive.
Description and interpretations
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Tempest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.