Giorgione

Giorgione (* 1478 in Castelfranco Veneto; Complete name Giorgio da Castelfranco, also Zorzi da Castelfranco; † before October 25, 1510 in Venice) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance

Life

Together with Titian Giorgione learned in the workshop of Giovanni Bellini. The few works that are known by him, are among the purest incarnations of the High Renaissance in Venice. The special feature of his style of painting is the almost complete absence of contour lines. Decisive for him is working out to color transitions, which can have an exceptionally atmospheric his pictures.

Giorgione da Castelfranco formed to Venice by Giovanni Bellini, was then in 1500 again in Castelfranco worked for the Condottiere Costanzo as a fresco painter painted there in 1504 for the former chapel Costanzo the altarpiece with the enthroned Madonna and Saints Nicasius (formerly known as Holy Liberal viewed ) and Francis (now there in the main church ), one of the most beautiful creations of Venetian painting, in which already the size of the view is paired with sophisticated beauty and fullest brightness of coloring. 1505 G. returned to Venice, where he carried out numerous now destroyed frescoed facades, among others, in 1508 at the Fondaco dei Tedeschi ( fragments in the Ca 'd'Oro and in Saltwood Castle, Kent ). From easel paintings of the artist are still authenticated: the so-called. Family of G., three figures in a landscape, which G. created the first pure landscape of Italian painting, and the three philosophers in a Mountainous Landscape (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum). In addition, you can still writes to him on the basis of stylistic kinship with the above paintings to: the concert (Florence, Palazzo Pitti ), three life-size half-figures, the crucible of the little Moses, the judgment of Solomon and the effigy of a Knight of Malta (Florence, Uffizi ), Madonna with Antony and Rochus (Madrid, museum), cross -bearing Christ (Vicenza, Casa Loschi ) male portrait ( Rovigo), Apollo and Daphne (Venice, Seminario della Salute ) and Sleeping Venus ( Dresden Gallery ). Giorgione died of plague in 1510 in Venice. His death is only transmitted by a letter from Isabella d' Este, so that an order relationship can be assumed. The flowering period of Venetian painting inaugurating G. has also achieved in his short life through a series of masterpieces peaked. Great creative power, sublime conception and a rich poetic imagination combined in him with a rare talent coloristic, which produced the lowest effects.