Describe the setting of Giorgione's The Tempest, and explain why it was an important painting from the Venetian Renaissance

What will be an ideal response?

Essay responses should include these points:
Giorgione introduced new, enigmatic pastoral themes inspired by the contemporary literary revival of ancient pastoral poetry.
The lighting is subtle like Leonardo's paintings.
The nude figure is seated on the ground with a white cloth over her shoulders, but her nudity seems maternal and sensual rather than heroic and biblical.
The artist's attention seems focused on the landscape and the unruly elements of nature as much as on the figures, which becomes an important theme in sixteenth-century art.