Giorgione's Tempest is one of the most discussed enigmas in the history of art, with over fifty different interpretations, based largely on ancient literary sources which have been 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
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Giorgione's Tempest is one of the most discussed enigmas in the history of art, with over fifty different interpretations, based largely on ancient literary sources which have been 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
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