Giorgione (1470s—1510) was a remarkable painter of the Venetian school about whom little is known.
Giorgione Summary
- Born on the periphery of Venice, he became a renowned painter in his 20s
- Close collaboration with Titian and Bellini has left ambiguities about authorship
- Recognized as an ingenious innovator even by his masters and known for his personal elegance
- Peculiarly free from the constraints of formalism, such as the didactic obligation
- His Tempest may have been the first landscape in Western art
- Many of his paintings have a level of doubt
- Died of the plague at barely 30 years of age
Giorgione’s Famous Paintings
- The Test of Fire of Moses (c. 1501)
- The Judgement of Solomon (c. 1501)
- Judith (c. 1504)
- Castelfranco Madonna (c. 1505)
- Portrait of a Young Bride (c. 1506)
- The Tempest (c. 1508)
- The Three Philosophers (1509)
- Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1510)
- The Impassioned Singer (c. 1510)
- Sleeping Venus (c. 1510)