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 Madonna and Child Between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, also known as Castelfranco Madonna or Pala di Castelfranco, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Giorgione executed around 1504.
Giorgione
…reduce to half a dozen the list of extant pictures that they will admit to be by this painter. 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. This gave the landscape…
Giorgione Pala di Castelfranco
The painting in its setting