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
Possible self-portrait as David, c. 1508–10
Laura (1506), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Sleeping Venus (c. 1510), Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany
The Tempest (c. 1508), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
The Sleeping Venus, also known as the Dresden Venus, is a painting traditionally attributed to the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione, although it has long been widely thought that Titian completed
Giorgione
…oil painting. These gave Giorgione's works the magical glow of light for which they are celebrated. Most typical of all Giorgione's extant works is the Sleeping Venus, now in Dresden. It was first recognized by Giovanni Morelli and is now universally accepted as being the same picture seen by Marcantonio Michiel and…
Jupiter and Antiope, detail of Titian's Pardo Venus
Girolamo da Treviso Sleeping Venus WGA09520
Venus de Urbino, por Tiziano