Giorgione, or Giorgio da Castelfranco (born about 1477-78), was an Italian painter and one of the pioneers of the High Renaissance style in the Venetian school , and is included in Vasari's Lives.

Giorgione Biography

• Born around 1477 or 1478 in Castelfranco Veneto, Republic of Venice
• He began his career as a painter in Venice around 1500.
• Study in the workshop of Giovanni Bellini
• In his short career, he produced innovative paintings that combined landscapes and figures.
• Died of the plague in Venice in 1510 (aged 32 or 33)

Representative works

• The Tempest (c. 1508)
• "Sleeping Venus" (1510)
• The Three Philosophers (c. 1508-1509)
• Pastoral Concert (c. 1508)

Giorgione's style and achievements

Giorgione's works are characterized by their poetic atmosphere, delicate harmony of colors, and skillful expression of light and shadow. He combined the landscape with the figure, and painted figures that blended into nature. His works inherited the traditions of Renaissance art, but developed them into more emotional and poetic expressions.

Her representative work, "The Storm," is an enigmatic piece in which a breastfeeding woman and a soldier stand in a landscape where a storm is approaching . It contrasts the power of nature with the existence of humans, encouraging the viewer to contemplate deeply. "Sleeping Venus," meanwhile, is a work that is impressive for its sensual beauty and harmony with the landscape, and it had a great influence on the depiction of female nudes in later Western art.

Although he lived only a short life, Giorgione's innovative painting style influenced many artists , including the Venetian master Titian . His work not only marked the pinnacle of Renaissance art, but also marked an important turning point that led to the Baroque and Romantic art that followed .