Giorgione

Giorgione
A possible self-portrait, perhaps as David
Born	Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco c. 1477–1478 Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
Died	1510 (age 32–33) Venice, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	Giovanni Bellini
Known for	Painting
Notable work	The Tempest Sleeping Venus Castelfranco Madonna The Three Philosophers
Movement	High Renaissance

Giorgione (/ˌdʒɔːrdʒiˈoʊneɪ, -ni/, US /ˌdʒɔːrˈdʒoʊni/; Italian: [dʒorˈdʒoːne]; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; c. 1477/8–1510) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school in the High Renaissance from Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over 30. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work. The resulting uncertainty about the identity and meaning of his art has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figures in European painting.

Together with Titian, who was slightly younger, he is the founder of the distinctive Venetian school of Italian Renaissance painting, which achieves much of its effect through colour and mood, and is traditionally contrasted with the reliance on the more linear disegno-led style of Florentine painting.