Giorgione | |
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 A possible self-portrait, perhaps as David | |
| Born | Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco 1477–78 or 1473–74 |
| Died | 1510 (aged 31–37) Venice, Republic of Venice (present day Veneto, Italy) |
| Nationality | Republic of Venice |
| Education | Giovanni Bellini |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | The Tempest Sleeping Venus Castelfranco Madonna The Three Philosophers |
| Movement | High Renaissance (Venetian school) |
Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (Venetian: Zorzi; 1477–78[1] or 1473–74[2] – 17 September 1510),[3] known as Giorgione (UK: /ˌdʒɔːrdʒiˈoʊneɪ, -ni/ JOR-jee-OH-nay, -nee, US: /ˌdʒɔːrˈdʒoʊni/ jor-JOH-nee; Italian: [dʒorˈdʒoːne]; Venetian: Zorzon [zoɾˈzoŋ]), was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are firmly attributed to him.[4] The uncertainty surrounding the identity and meaning of his work has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figures in European art.
Together with his younger contemporary Titian, he founded the Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting, characterised by its use of colour and mood. The school is traditionally contrasted with Florentine painting, which relied on a more linear disegno-led style.
- ^ Vasari's 1550 edition gives Giorgione's birth year as 1477, although one source says that Vasari's 1550 edition gives it as 1476. Anderson, Jaynie, et al., "Giorgione in Sydney", Burlington Magazine, CLXI/1392 (March 2019), p. 192; Vasari's 1568 edition gives it as 1478
- ^ "Some recent discoveries supply a little more information about Giorgione′s short life. An inscription on a previously unknown drawing, perhaps by Giorgione, appended to the final page of an edition of Dante's Divine Comedy published in Venice in 1497, gives precise dates for the painter's birth and death, telling us that he died on 17 September 1510, at the age of 36. This would mean that Giorgione was born at some point between 18 September 1473 and 17 September 1474, a few years earlier than had previous been thought...." Tom Nichols, Giorgione's Ambiguity (Reaktion Books, 2020, pp. 19-20); University of Sydney Library. "Dante's Divine Comedy with Giorgione illustration and death notice". Digital Collections. Nichols cites Anderson, Jaynie, et al., "Giorgione in Sydney", Burlington Magazine, CLXI/1392 (March 2019), pp. 190-99.
- ^ The precise date is cited in Nichols, p. 19. Vasari, in both editions, gives Giorgioni's year of death as 1511.
- ^ Dalvit and Peyton, pp. 44, 46, state that "only four [paintings] can be assigned to him with certainty: a portrait of an unidentified sitter now in San Diego, formerly in the Terris collection ... ; the famous Tempest at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice; the so-called Laura of 1506 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna; and, in the same museum, the Three Philosophers.