Giorgione
Giorgione Biography
Giorgione or Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco was born in 1477 or 1478 in Castelfranco. He probably studied art under Giovanni Bellini. Although only some 20 paintings are generally associated with him, of which only about six are attributed to him without doubt, his originality was so powerful that these few works have come to represent not only the first stage in the Venice High Renaissance, but a new trend in Italian art as well. Surviving documentation of his life and work is sparse. He was associated with the humanist circle of the poet...
Giorgione 20 Most Important Paintings and Artworks
- Moses' Trial By Fire.
1495-1496. Oil on paneel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
- The Judgment Of Solomon.
1495-1496. Oil on paneel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
- The Holy Family.
c.1500. Oil on panel. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
- La Vecchia.
c.1502-1503. Oil on canvas. Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy.
- Adoration Of The Magi.
c.1502-1504. Oil on panel. National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
- Judith.
c.1504. Oil on canvas, transferred from panel. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
- Adoration Of The Shepherds.
c.1504. Oil on panel. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
- Sacra Conversazione.
c.1505. Oil on panel. Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy.
- A Young Man.
1505-1506. Oil on canvas. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
- Castelfranco Madonna.
c.1506. Oil on wood. Castelfranco Venero, San Liberalre, Italy.
- Portrait Of A Young Woman ("Laura").
1506. Oil on wood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
- The Three Philosophers.
c.1508. Oil on canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
- Sleeping Venus.
c.1508. Oil on canvas. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany. Read Note.
- Singer.
1508-1510. Oil on canvas. Museo Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy.
- The Tempest.
c.1510. Oil on canvas. Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy.
- Portrait Of A Young Man (Antonio Broccardo?).
c.1510. Oil on canvas. Szepmuveseti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary.
- Portrait Of A Gentleman In Armor.
c.1510. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
- The Three Ages Of Man.
c.1510. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
- Madonna And Child With St. Anthony And St. Roch.
c.1510. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
- Portrait Of A Venetian Gentleman.
c.1510. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
Giorgione Bibliography
Giorgione. Old Italian Masters. by V. Lazarev. Moscow. 1972.
Giorgione. by N. Belousova. Moscow. 1982.
The Art of the Italian Renaissance. Architecture. Sculpture. Painting. Drawing. Könemann. 1995.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Giorgione by Terisio Pignatti, Filippo Pedrocco. Rizzoli, 1999.
Giorgione by Jaynie Anderson. Flammarion, 1997.
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting by David Alan Brown, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden. Yale University Press, 2006.
Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject by Salvatore Settis, Ellen Bianchini. University Of Chicago Press, 1994.
Giorgione by Mauro Lucco. Gallimard, 1997.
Giorgione: Myth and Enigma by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Giovanna Nepi Scire, Charles Hope, Augusto Gentili. Skira, 2004.
