Giorgione
[jawr-joh-nee; Italian jawr-jaw-ne]
- Giorgione de CastelfrancoGiorgio Barbarelli, 1478?–1511, Italian painter.
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Contemporary Examples
Rubens, Giorgione, Klee and Corot have painted it; Jean Cocteau has turned it into film.
Historical Examples
Moore is delighted with a Titian and Giorgione at the Fitzwilliam.
Letters of Edward FitzGeraldEdward FitzGerald
The official catalogue of 1903 persists in ascribing it to Giorgione.
The Story of ParisThomas Okey
Giorgione would have set them, wild and fragrant, among their leaves, in her hand.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2)John Ruskin
We cannot realise what they meant at that period—these new ideas of Giorgione.
VeniceDorothy Menpes
In the work of Giorgione the Renaissance finds its most genuine expression.
VeniceDorothy Menpes
Giorgione
- 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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