Giorgione

[ jawr-joh-nee; Italian jawr-jaw-ne ]

/ dʒɔrˈdʒoʊ ni; Italian dʒɔrˈdʒɔ nɛ /

Giorgione de CastelfrancoGiorgio Barbarelli,1478?–1511, Italian painter.

Example sentences from the Web for giorgione

Rubens, Giorgione, Klee and Corot have painted it; Jean Cocteau has turned it into film.

Ann Wroe’s ‘Orpheus’: Why the Mythological Muse Haunts Us |Ann Wroe |May 31, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Copy of a portion of Giorgione's lost picture of the "Birth of Paris."

Giorgione |Herbert Cook
Giorgione uses it as an instrument of expression, blending nature and human nature into happy unison.

Giorgione |Herbert Cook
All these men, whose work is so full of splendour, came under the influence of Giorgione after passing through Bellini's bottega.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa |Edward Hutton

The National Gallery, for example, registers Giorgione's work under this name.

Giorgione |Herbert Cook
It has been well said that almost literally the chief colour on Giorgione's palette was sunlight.

Giorgione |Herbert Cook

Giorgione

/ (Italian dʒorˈdʒoːne) /

Il. original name Giorgio Barbarelli. ?1478–1511, Italian painter of the Venetian school, who introduced a new unity between figures and landscape