Giorgione

American  

[jawr-joh-nee, jawr-jaw-ne] / dʒɔrˈdʒoʊ ni, dʒɔrˈdʒɔ nɛ /

noun

1. Giorgione de CastelfrancoGiorgio Barbarelli, 1478?–1511, Italian painter.

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Giorgione British  

/ dʒorˈdʒoːne /

noun

1. Il. original name Giorgio Barbarelli. ?1478–1511, Italian painter of the Venetian school, who introduced a new unity between figures and landscape

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Giorgione

She then used paintings to illustrate the development of art history through inventive copying, like the evolution of the reclining nude from Giorgione to Titian to Manet.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2023

It’s not that subjects and meaning stop mattering in the unstable fArtworks of Giorgione and his ilk, getting replaced by so-called aesthetic values such as “beauty” or “form.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

“He was not always right and that is good because it makes him a human and not a superhuman,” says Giorgione.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2019

It was a dramatic tale but one in touch with the history of art, which is unfortunately full of tragic stories of early deaths, from Giorgione and Raphael to Basquiat and beyond.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2019

Here he met Giorgione as a fellow-pupil, who soon became his warm friend.

From Famous European Artists by Sarah K. Bolton

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