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Giorgione’s The Tempest is a revolutionary work of its time, painted in Venetian style in the year 1510. The image portrays a picturesque scene with a fountain in the foreground, a receding river, a city in the background, and a thunderstorm in a darkened sky. In the foreground, Giorgione placed two images, one on the right above the fountain breastfeeding her child, and a German soldier on the left, glancing over at her before turning his head continually towards the viewer. Upon x-ray, it was determined that another woman figure was going to be included in the original conception of the work on the left side balancing out the woman on the right, entering into the fountain, but was removed, hence le