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Lorenzo Lotto: Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

21 November 2023

In my interpretation of Giorgione's Tempest as "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt" I explained the reasons why Giorgione chose to portray St. Joseph as a virile, young man. Shortly...

Paris Bordone: Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

31 October 2023

This year I have been posting my various Renaissance art discoveries, and while there is no doubt about the subject of Paris Bordone's depiction of The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine,...

Pa;ma Vecchio: Allegory, or Rest on the Flight into Egypt.

16 October 2023

This year I have been re-posting my interpretations of some mysterious Renaissance paintings by Giorgione and his contemporaries. Here is the latest, a painting, identified as Allegory in...

GiorgioneL Man of Sorrows

25 September 2023

Back in 2011 I identified a painting often called "Homage to a Poet" as Giorgione's version of the Man of Sorrows. I reprise it here even though I believe that more work needs to be...