Giorgione

[jawr-joh-nee; Italian jawr-jaw-ne]

noun

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

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Examples from the Web for giorgione

Contemporary Examples

Rubens, Giorgione, Klee and Corot have painted it; Jean Cocteau has turned it into film.
Ann Wroe’s ‘Orpheus’: Why the Mythological Muse Haunts Us
Ann Wroe
May 31, 2012

Historical Examples

Moore is delighted with a Titian and Giorgione at the Fitzwilliam.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald
Edward FitzGerald
The official catalogue of 1903 persists in ascribing it to Giorgione.
The Story of Paris
Thomas 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.
Venice
Dorothy Menpes
In the work of Giorgione the Renaissance finds its most genuine expression.
Venice
Dorothy Menpes

British Dictionary definitions for giorgione

Giorgione

noun

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

Examples from the Web for giorgione

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.

The official catalogue of 1903 persists in ascribing it to Giorgione.

Giorgione would have set them, wild and fragrant, among their leaves, in her hand.

We cannot realise what they meant at that period—these new ideas of Giorgione.

In the work of Giorgione the Renaissance finds its most genuine expression.

Giorgione