Giorgione

Giorgione (c. 1477- 1510) (i. e. Great George), the sobriquet given to Giorgio Barbarella, one of the early Italian masters of the Venetian school, born near Castelfranco, in the North-East of Italy. At Venice he studied under Giovanni Bellini, and had Titian as a fellow-pupil. His portraits are among the finest of the Italian school, and exhibit a freshness of colour and conception and a firmness of touch unsurpassed in his day. His works deal chiefly with scriptural and pastoral scenes, and include a "Holy Family" in the Louvre, "Virgin and Child" in Venice, and "Moses Rescued".

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