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Giorgione (c. 1477 — 1510) is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, was an Italian painter, one of the seminal artists of the High Renaissance in Venice. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, and for the fact that only very few (around six) paintings are known for certain to be his work. The resulting uncertainty about the identity and meaning of his art has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figures in European painting. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 494 Ã— 599 pixelsFull resolution (2024 Ã— 2454 pixel, file size: 190 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) [[Category:Renaissance paintings|Giorgione] File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giorgione ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 494 Ã— 599 pixelsFull resolution (2024 Ã— 2454 pixel, file size: 190 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) [[Category:Renaissance paintings|Giorgione] File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giorgione ... Events January 5 - Battle of Nancy - Charles the Bold of Burgundy is again defeated, and this time is killed. ... Year 1510 (MDX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ... The Creation of Adam, Michelangelos fresco from the . ... Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia) is the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ... For building painting, see painter and decorator. ...

Life

Giorgione's life is described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. The painter came from the small town of Castelfranco Veneto, outside Venice. His name sometimes appears as Zorzo. The variant Giorgione (or Zorzon) may be translated "Big George". How early in boyhood he went to Venice we do not know, but internal evidence supports the statement of Ridolfi that he served his apprenticeship there under Giovanni Bellini; there he settled and made his fame. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1056x790, 159 KB) Giorgione, FÃªte champÃ¨tre File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giorgione ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1056x790, 159 KB) Giorgione, FÃªte champÃ¨tre File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giorgione ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Giorgio Vasaris selfportrait Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1574) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists. ... Castelfranco Veneto is a town and episcopal see of Veneto, Italy, in the Treviso province, 16 mi. ... Giovanni Bellini painted his first female nude when he was about 85 years old. ...

Contemporary documents record that his gifts were recognized early. In 1500, when he was only twenty-three (that is, if Vasari gives rightly the age at which he died), he was chosen to paint portraits of the Doge Agostino Barberigo and the condottiere Consalvo Ferrante. In 1504 he was commissioned to paint an altarpiece in memory of Matteo Costanzo in the cathedral of his native town, Castelfranco. In 1507 he received at the order of the Council of Ten part payment for a picture (subject not mentioned) on which he was engaged for the Hall of the Audience in the Doge's Palace. In 1507-1508 he was employed, with other artists of his generation, to decorate with frescoes the exterior of the newly rebuilt Fondaco dei Tedeschi (or German Merchants' Hall) at Venice, having already done similar work on the exterior of the Casa Soranzo, the Casa Grimani alli Servi and other Venetian palaces. Doges Palace. ... The Fondaco dei Tedeschi (Venetian: Fontego dei Tedeschi) was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the German merchant population in Venice, situated on the Grand Canal. ...

Vasari gives also as an important event in Giorgione's life, and one which had influence on his work, his meeting with Leonardo da Vinci on the occasion of the Tuscan master's visit to Venice in 1500. In September or October 1510 he died of the plague then raging in the city, and within a few days of his death we find the great art-patroness and amateur, Isabella d'Este, writing from Mantua and trying in vain to secure for her collection a nocturne by his hand. Download high resolution version (595x664, 38 KB)The tempest by Giorgione (c. ... Download high resolution version (595x664, 38 KB)The tempest by Giorgione (c. ... The Tempest (Italian La Tempesta) is an oil on canvas painting by Giorgione. ... The Mona Lisa Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 â€“ May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. ... Bubonic plague is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease plague, which is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. ... Isabella dEste Isabella dEste (18 May 1474 - 13 February 1539) was one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance and a major cultural and political figure. ... Mantua (in Italian Mantova, in the local dialect of Emiliano-Romagnolo language Mantua) is an important city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province with the same name. ...

All accounts agree in representing Giorgione as a person of distinguished and romantic charm, a great lover and musician, given to express in art the sensuous and imaginative grace, touched with poetic melancholy, of the Venetian existence of his time. They represent him further as having made in Venetian painting an advance analogous to that made in Tuscan painting by Leonardo more than twenty years before; that is, as having released the art from the last shackles of archaic rigidity and placed it in possession of full freedom and the full mastery of its means.

Giorgione also introduced a new range of subjects. Besides altarpieces and portraits he painted pictures that told no story, whether biblical or classical, or if they professed to tell such, neglected the action and simply embodied in form and color moods of lyrical or romantic feeling, much as a musician might embody them in sounds. Innovating with the courage and felicity of genius, he had for a time an overwhelming influence on his contemporaries and immediate successors in the Venetian school, including Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Palma il Vecchio, il Cariani, Giulio Campagnola (and his brother), and even on his already eminent master, Giovanni Bellini. In the Venetian mainland, Giorgionismo strongly influenced Morto da Feltre, Domenico Capriolo, and Domenico Mancini. The Annunciation Triptych is an altarpiece, ca. ... A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person or object. ... Titians self-portrait, 1566. ... Sebastiano del Piombo (1485 â€“ June 21, 1547), Italian painter, was born at Venice. ... Violante by Palma il Vecchio (c. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Giulio Campagnola (born Padua c. ... Morto da Feltre was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who worked at the close of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th. ...

His name and work have exercised, and continue to exercise, no less a spell on posterity. But to identify and define, among the relics of his age and school, precisely what that work is, and to distinguish it from the kindred work of other men whom his influence inspired, is a very difficult matter. There are inclusive critics who still claim for Giorgione nearly every painting of the time that at all resembles his manner, and there are exclusive critics who pare down to half a dozen the list of extant pictures which they will admit to be actually his.

Works

While still in Castelfranco, Giorgione painted the Castelfranco Madonna, a fairly conventional sacra conversazione piece — Madonna enthroned, with saints on either side forming an equilateral triangle. However, the romantic richness of the landscape in the background marks an innovation in Venetian art. Giorgione discovered sfumato or chiaroscuro — the delicate use of shades of color to depict light and perspective — around the same time as Leonardo. His delicate color modulations result from the tiny disconnected spots of paint that he probably derived from manuscript illumination techniques and first brought into oil painting. These gave Giorgione's works the magical glow of light for which they are famous. The Madonna and Child Between St. ... In art, the sacra conversazione refers to a depiction of the Madonna with infant Jesus amidst the saints. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In traditional Christian iconography, Saints are often depicted as having halos. ... Detail of the face of Mona Lisa showing the use of sfumato, particularly in the shading around the eyes. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Tenebrism. ... In the strictest definition of illuminated manuscript, only manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, like this miniature of Christ in Majesty from the Aberdeen Bestiary (folio 4v), would be considered illuminated. ...

Most entirely central and typical of all Giorgione's extant works is the Sleeping Venus at Dresden, first recognized by Morelli, and now universally accepted, as being the same as the picture seen by the Anonimo and later by Ridolfi in the Casa Marcello at Venice. An exquisitely pure and severe rhythm of line and contour chastens the sensuous richness of the presentment: the sweep of white drapery on which the goddess lies, and of glowing landscape that fills the space behind her, most harmoniously frame her divinity. The use of an external landscape to frame a nude is innovative; but in addition, to add to her mystery, she is shrouded in sleep, spirited away from accessibility to her conscious expression.^[1] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1028x732, 148 KB) Giorgione, Venus endormie File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giorgione Venus of Urbino GemÃ¤ldegalerie Alte Meister Sleeping Venus (Giorgione) ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1028x732, 148 KB) Giorgione, Venus endormie File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giorgione Venus of Urbino GemÃ¤ldegalerie Alte Meister Sleeping Venus (Giorgione) ... The Sleeping Venus, also known as Dresden Madonna, is an influential painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione, c. ... For other uses, see Dresden (disambiguation). ...

It is recorded that the master left this piece unfinished and that the landscape, with a Cupid which subsequent restoration has removed, were completed after his death by Titian. The picture is the prototype of Titian's own Venus of Urbino and of many more by other painters of the school; but none of them attained the fame of the first exemplar. The same concept of idealized beauty is evoked in a virginally pensive Judith from the Hermitage Museum, a large painting which exhibits Giorgione's special qualities of color richness and landscape romance, while demonstrating that life and death are each other's companions rather than foes. The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest, oldest, most important and famous art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. ...

The Tempest has been called the first landscape in the history of Western painting. The subject of this painting is unclear, but its artistic mastery is apparent. The Tempest portrays a soldier and a breast-feeding woman on either side of a stream, amid a city's rubble and an incoming storm. The multitude of symbols in The Tempest offer many interpretations, but none is wholly satisfying. Theories that the painting is about duality (city and country, male and female) have been dismissed since radiography has shown that in the earlier stages of the painting the soldier to the left was a seated female nude.^[2] The Tempest (Italian La Tempesta) is an oil on canvas painting by Giorgione. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A radiograph of a right elbow-joint Radiography is the use of certain types of electromagnetic radiationâ€”usually ionizingâ€”to view objects. ...

The Three Philosophers is equally enigmatic and its attribution to Giorgione is still disputed. The three figures stand near a dark empty cave. Sometimes interpreted as symbols of Plato's cave or the Three Magi, they seem lost in a typical Giorgionesque dreamy mood, reinforced by a hazy light so characteristic of his other landscapes, such as the Pastoral Concert, now in the Louvre. The latter "reveals the Venetians' love of textures", for the painter "renders almost palpable the appearance of flesh, fabric, wood, stone, and foliage"^[3]. The painting is devoid of harsh contours and its treatment of landscape has been frequently compared to pastoral poetry, hence the title. The Three Philosophers is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Early Renaissance artist Giorgione, who finished it in around 1505. ... Illustration of Platos cave Platos allegory of the cave is perhaps the best-known of his many metaphors, allegories, and myths. ... Three Kings, or Three Wise Men redirects here. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Giorgione and young Titian revolutionized the genre of the portrait as well. It is exceedingly difficult and sometimes simply impossible to differentiate Titian's early pieces from Giorgione's. The only signed and dated work by Giorgione is his portrait of Laura (1 June 1506), one of the first to be painted in the "modern manner", distinguished by dignity, clarity, and sophisticated characterization. Even more striking is the Portrait of a Young Man from Munich (ca. 1504), acclaimed by art historians for "the indescribably subtle expression of serenity and the immobile features, added to the chiseled effect of the silhouette and modeling"^[4]. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2477, 311 KB) Description: Title: de: Laura (PortrÃ¤t einer jungen Frau) Technique: de: Leinwand auf Holz geklebt Dimensions: de: 41 Ã— 33,6 cm Country of origin: de: Italien Current location (city): de: Wien Current location (gallery): de: Kunsthistorisches Museum Other... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x2477, 311 KB) Description: Title: de: Laura (PortrÃ¤t einer jungen Frau) Technique: de: Leinwand auf Holz geklebt Dimensions: de: 41 Ã— 33,6 cm Country of origin: de: Italien Current location (city): de: Wien Current location (gallery): de: Kunsthistorisches Museum Other... Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna. ... A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person or object. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1506 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Munich (German: , pronounced ; Austro-Bavarian: Minga; Italian: Monaco; Latin language: Monacum) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria (German: ). Munich is Germanys third largest city and one of Europes most prosperous. ...

Assessment

Though he died at the young age of 33, the precocious and versatile painter left a lasting legacy to be developed by Titian and 17th-century artists. Giorgione never subordinated line and colour to architecture, nor an artistic effect to a sentimental presentation. He was the first to paint landscapes with figures, the first to paint genre — movable pictures in their own frames with no devotional, allegorical, or historical purpose — and the first whose colours possessed that ardent, glowing, and melting intensity which was so soon to typify the work of all the Venetian School.

Some works attributed to Giorgione

The Madonna and Child Between St. ... Castelfranco Veneto is a town and episcopal see of Veneto, Italy, in the Treviso province, 16 mi. ... The Tempest (Italian La Tempesta) is an oil on canvas painting by Giorgione. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1056x790, 159 KB) Giorgione, FÃªte champÃ¨tre File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Giorgione ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Anbetung der Hirten (Adoration of the Shepherds) by Carlo Crivelli (1490) The Adoration of the shepherds, in Christian iconography, is a scene in which shepherds are near witnesses to the birth of Jesus, at his birthplace, typically depicted as a barn, near Bethlehem. ... The Portrait of a Young Bride, also known as Laura, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione, c. ... Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna. ... Vienna (German: , see also other names) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... The Three Philosophers is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Early Renaissance artist Giorgione, who finished it in around 1505. ... The Sleeping Venus, also known as Dresden Madonna, is an influential painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione, c. ... Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... Wikimedia Commons logo by Reid Beels The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ...

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Life

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Some works attributed to Giorgione

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