ESSAI SUR UN PAYSAGE DE LA RENAISSANCE: LA TEMPETE DE GIORGIONE
ESSAI SUR UN PAYSAGE DE LA RENAISSANCE: LA TEMPETE DE GIORGIONE

Summary/Abstract: This research, in which one of the Giorgione painting has specifically been chosen, aims to analyse the philosophical dimensions related to typical elements of a renaissance landscape. Thus the Tempesta (the Storm) of Giorgione is a good example of a pastoral landscape of this period; with all its ambiguity that has been widely discussed and researched by several theoreticians and art historians until today. In this research, we tried to bring up some of the philosophical expansions related to this painting of Giorgione, in terms of the visual language of renaissance period landscape painting. This research which focuses on Giorgione, Renaissance and landscape painting has been constructed in the axis of some of the important thinkers and theoreticians from different periods like; Aristotle, AlexandreGefen, Gaston Bachelard, Jean-Paul Brun, MarsileFicin, MarcelinPlenet, Manfred Wundram, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and SalvatorSettis, who is known especially with his researches on Giorgione’s paintings. Based on these names, together with analysing this painting of Giorgione, we tried also to handle some notions like poesy, spirituality, pastoral, picturesque which appear in the context of the visual impact of landscape image. We tried to handle the metaphorical expansions of figures on foreground, natural event (storm) in the background, complementary descriptions like the bridge etc. and the particular settlements of renaissance art by taking advantage of the specified theoreticians’ interpretations. As a result, another aim of writing this article has become to establish an original synthesis, based on certain philosophical theories, reviewing some of notable interpretations on this painting.

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