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Giorgione
Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, known as Giorgione, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are firmly attributed to him. The uncertainty surrounding the identity and meaning of his work has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figu…
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culture · Italian painter (1470s–1510) · painter · visual artist · also Giorgione, Giorgioni di Castelfranco, Georgoni, Giorgoni, Giorgone, Zorzo da Castelfranco
Born 1 January 1478 · Died 1 January 1510 · Q8459
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2024· 1 entry
The New Criterion: Giorgione in the house
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2023· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’: Giorgione’s Pastoral Christmas
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2021· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Why Are Giorgione’s Paintings So Mysterious, Even Centuries Later?
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: In the Age of Giorgione review: in pursuit of an elusive genius
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The Daily Telegraph: Giorgione sparked a revolution in Venetian painting. But who was he?
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2012· 1 entry
Charles Hope complained: "In fact, there are only three paintings known today for which there is clear and credible early evidence that they were by him
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2011· 1 entry
Places his death on the island of Lazzareto Nuovo; both were used as places of quarantine in times of plague
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2010· 1 entry
The Financial Times: Giorgione at the Museo Casa Giorgione
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2004· 2 entries
The Economist: Giorgione the modernist
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And Washington in 2006, have given art historians further opportunities to see disputed works side by side (see External links below)
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2003· 1 entry
As "perhaps the most contentious problem of attribution in the whole of Italian Renaissance art," but affects a large number of paintings possibly from Giorgione's last years
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1997· 1 entry
"The situation has been thrown into new critical confusion by Alessandro Ballarin's radical revision of the corpus
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1510· 1 entry
Died 1510-01-01.
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1478· 1 entry
Born 1478-01-01.
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