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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Example Sentences

Right now, at the Frick Collection’s temporary home on Madison Avenue in New York, an unlikely two-painting show called “Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini” has been revealing telltale signs of the Big Bang of Western fine art, and the birth of the artistic universe we now live in.

From New York Times

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

A picture by the Venetian artist Giorgione is referred to as “The Three Philosophers,” but the title is that vague only because we have never been able to settle on what the artist had in mind for his three figures.

From New York Times

Nagel believes that Giorgione had such unsettled meaning as his goal, and he tracks how the artist actually worked to make his subject less legible, abandoning the standard religious imagery of the magi at the manger by leaving a blank space where you’d expect Christ and his mother, turning the three kings into the “philosophers” of our new title.

From New York Times

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