A young man with a staff stands at left; across a stream, a nearly naked woman nurses a baby, while lightning splits the sky over a town behind them. Made for the Venetian noble Gabriele Vendramin, it is one of the first Western paintings in which landscape and weather carry the mood. Its subject has never been securely explained.
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X-rays show that Giorgione first painted a second nude woman where the man now stands. A stork perches on a rooftop at right.
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