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

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 as if the aging painter was trying to keep up with the times, with young Giorgione and Titian, and couldn’t quite get the hang of it.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

These included ideas that would only become a reality hundreds of years later, such as flying machines – although Giorgione warns against embracing hindsight and seeing Leonardo as a visionary.

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

The "Portia swallowing fire," the Rembrandt portrait, the far-famed "Giorgione, son and wife," and twenty others, which to see is to be charmed, delighted me once more.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker