GIORGIONE

born c. 1477, , Castelfranco Veneto, Republic of Venice died 1510, Venice also called Giorgio Da Castelfranco, original name Giorgio Barbarelli extremely influential Italian painter who was one of the initiators of a High Renaissance style in Venetian art. His qualities of mood and mystery were epitomized in The Tempest (c. 1505), an evocative pastoral scene, which was among the first of its genre in Venetian painting. Additional reading George Martin Richter, Giorgio da Castelfranco, Called Giorgione (1937), is a catalogue raisonn with complete bibliography up to 1936. Terisio Pignatti, Giorgione (1971), contains documentation and bibliography reproduced from Richter but brought up to date. Ludwig Baldass, Giorgione (1965), is also useful in providing more modern scholarship.