Giorgione(c.1478-1511) was one of the greatest of the Venetian school of painters: he exerted considerable influence on his contemporaries, including Titian. Like Constable's Cornfield the design of the tempest depends on a vista seen through trees. The subject of this picture, now in the Venice Gallery, has not been identified. Despite the storm raging in the background, the figures suggest ease and peace which somehow is lacking from constable's beautiful presentation of the English countryside.
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