Renaissance

Giorgione

Giorgione (c. 1477–1510) was the mysterious pioneer of the Venetian High Renaissance, master of mood, atmosphere and poetic landscape. He died young, leaving only a handful of enigmatic, much-debated paintings.

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1477–1510 · Venetian Renaissance painter

Giorgione invented the dreamy, mood-driven painting that Titian and all of Venice would build upon.

From the artist's life

The meaning of his Tempest has baffled scholars for centuries — no one is sure who the figures are or what story, if any, it tells.

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Portrait of Giorgione — Portrait: Wikimedia Commons / Wikipedia.

Pioneered atmospheric, poetic painting in Renaissance Venice.
His Tempest remains one of art's great unsolved mysteries.
Died around 33, probably of plague, leaving very few works.

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The TempestOn ArtAtlas
The Three PhilosophersListed for reference
LauraListed for reference
Self-portraitListed for reference
Christ Carrying the CrossListed for reference
NudeListed for reference
Frieze of the Liberal and Mechanical ArtsListed for reference

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