Pocket Library of Studies in Art Hesiod's Theogony as Source of the Iconological Program of Giorgione's 'Tempesta': The Poet, Amalthea, the Infant Zeus a, Book 41, (Hardcover)

Giorgione's "Tempesta" has been the most discussed enigma in the history of art, with over fifty different interpretations, based largely on ancient literary sources which were 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 them, animate and inanimate, for the artist translated the poet's words literally into visual images.