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Some the most famous Italian painters to turn to this subject are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini and Titian, in the 16th century.

They feature works of Italian Renaissance artists, including Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, as well as Benois Madonna and Madonna Litta attributed to Leonardo da Vinci or his school.

For his home town of Castelfranco, Giorgione painted the Castelfranco Madonna, an altarpiece in sacra conversazione form — Madonna enthroned, with saints on either side forming an equilateral triangle.

Image: Giorgione 001. jpg | The Castelfranco Madonna, before recent cleaning.

He was very closely associated with Titian ; Vasari says Giorgione was Titian's master, while Ridolfi says they both were pupils of Bellini, and lived in his house.

October 1510 is also the date of a letter by Isabella d ' Este to a Venetian friend ; asking him to buy a painting by Giorgione ; in the letter she is aware he is already dead.

In the first edition of the Vite ( 1550 ), he attributed a Christ Carrying the Cross to Giorgione ; in the second edition completed in 1568 he ascribed authorship, variously, to Giorgione in his biography, which was printed in 1565, and to Titian in his, printed in 1567.

He was a friend of Giulio Romano, Giorgione, Titian and Ariosto ; in a picture of " Paradise " he painted Ariosto between St Catherine and St Sebastian.

** Giorgione, Italian painter ( b. c. 1477 )

The Tempest ( Giorgione ) | The Tempest ( c. 1508 ) Gallerie dell ' Accademia, Venice, Italy

File: Giorgione 014. jpg | Giorgione, Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1500

File: Tizian 080. jpg | Giorgione and Titian, Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman, c. 1507

Giorgione's Sleeping Venus ( Giorgione ) | Sleeping Venus ( c. 1510 ), Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.

Giorgione, The Tempest ( painting ) | The Tempest ( c. 1508 ).

Sleeping Venus ( c. 1510 ), also known as the Dresden Venus by Giorgione

Giorgione, Sleeping Venus ( Giorgione ) | Sleeping Venus, c. 1510.

In that period his works are influenced by artists such as Giorgione and Lucas Cranach, as shown by his Crucifixion.

# Lead Medium-attributed to Peter Paul Rubens-This medium was allegedly based on the black oil of Giorgione with an addition of mastic resin, Venice turpentine and beeswax.

** Giorgione, painter in Italian High Renaissance ( d. 1510 )

An entire new structure was raised alongside the canal, stretching from the ponte della Canonica to the Ponte della Paglia, with the official rooms of the government decorated with works commissioned from Vittore Carpaccio, Giorgione, Alvise Vivarini and Giovanni Bellini.

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.

All accounts agree in representing Giorgione as a person of distinguished and romantic charm, a great lover and a musician, given to express in his art the sensuous and imaginative grace, touched with poetic melancholy, of the Venetian existence of his time.

They worked together on the Fondaco dei Tedeschi frescoes, and Titian finished at least some paintings of Giorgione after his death, although which ones remains very controversial.

Giorgione also introduced a new range of subjects.

Giorgione died, probably of the plague then raging, by October, 1510.

Though there are no longer any supporters of the " Pan Giorgionismus " which a century ago claimed for Giorgione nearly every painting of the time that at all resembles his manner, there are still, as then, exclusive critics who reduce to half a dozen the list of extant pictures which they will admit to be actually by this master.

Giorgione began to use the very refined chiaroscuro called sfumato — the delicate use of shades of color to depict light and perspective — around the same time as Leonardo.

It is recorded by Michiel that Giorgione left this piece unfinished and that the landscape, with a Cupid which subsequent restoration has removed, were completed after his death by Titian.

This market had been emerging over the last half of the 15th century in Italy, and was much better established in the Netherlands, but Giorgione was the first major Italian painter to concentrate his work on it to such an extent — indeed soon after his death the size of paintings began to increase with the prosperity and palaces of the patrons.

The Three Philosophers is equally enigmatic and its attribution to Giorgione is still disputed.

Giorgione and the young Titian revolutionized the genre of the portrait as well.

It is exceedingly difficult and sometimes simply impossible to differentiate Titian's early works from those of Giorgione.

* Giorgione ( Italian, 1477 – 1510 ) Pioneer of Venetian School of painting

* Giorgione – Adoration of the Shepherds ( approximate completion date )

Image: Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman-Giorgione and Tizian 1510 NG Wash DC. jpg | Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman, by Giorgione and Titian 1510-National Gallery of Art

1510, by Giorgione or Titian, has been cited as an inspiration for Manet's painting.

Returning to Venice towards 1505, he assisted Giorgione in painting the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, and seems to have remained with him till 1510.

File: Giorgione 062. jpg | Giorgione, 1510