Talk:List of reportedly haunted paintings

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Is the haunting of Giorgione's The Tempest a metaphor?

The Tempest, by Giorgione (c. 1506-1508) housed at the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, may or may not be worthy of inclusion on this page. As is written on the wiki page about the painting, "Jan Morris was fascinated with the subject and "its sense of permanently suspended enigma", and called it a "haunted picture", inhabited by the actual presence of the artist."^[1] The wording "inhabited by the actual presence of the artist" suggests (to me at least) that Morris was being quite literal in saying the painting is haunted, but as I don't have access to the source cited, I can't confirm or deny that. If someone with access to this source could share what it actually says, I'd be appreciative :) Yitz (talk) 20:04, 27 June 2022 (UTC) Yitz (talk) 20:04, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A longer extract from her book is:

It was not merely its subject that fascinated me with its sense of permanently suspended enigma; I felt too, in a way I had never felt before, that I was in the actual presence of the artist. It seemed to me a haunted picture, around which Giorgione himself hovered wraith-like and tantalizing. Since then I have seen almost every Giorgione in the world - almost every one, that is, listed with certainty in the Rizzoli catalogue...

"Inhabited by" is a wiki editor's phrase, not Morris's. This is a description of someone who was very moved by a painting and felt a connection to its artist, not someone who sensed a hovering, literal ghost but only thought to document this in passing. --Lord Belbury (talk) 07:08, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Morris, Jan, Pleasures of a Tangled Life, Arrow, 1990, p. 170.

"The scariest image online (REAL)"

that sounds a little vandalism does anyone have a cite on that Soulware2 (talk) 19:05, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The reference is linked at the end of its description: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/fashion/14noticed.html Belbury (talk) 19:11, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

this sounds like any other old creepypasta

i feel like you can slap a slightly disturbing image called it a painting and made up something about it will kill you if you do something Soulware2 (talk) 15:13, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think this painting is relevant as it demonstrates how the discord around haunted paintings has evolved during the internet era. Along with The Hands Resist Him, this image was all over the internet 10 years ago. If only we could find a source for the artist and the name of the picture. 61.12.248.187 (talk) 06:59, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Morris, Jan, Pleasures of a Tangled Life, Arrow, 1990, p. 170.

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