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Giorgione da Castelfranco (Castelfranco Veneto, 1478 – Venezia, 1510)

Giorgione it is one of the most famous Venetian painters of the XV century, working also to Venice in which lived for years.

The name proper of the artist is still uncertain, he is known that he lived and he especially operated to Venice where he died in 1510 at 33 years of plague.
The principal source of news concerning the Giorgione is the book written by Vasari Lives of the principal artists designer and sculptural written among 1550 and 1568, where he wrote that it learned to paint with the Bellini and from if and that it initially devoted him to paint Madonnas.
The Storm (1507 -08) it is one of the few certain works of Giorgione and it is found exposed in the Academy's Galleries.
More of the works of Giorgione, usually visible in the lagoon museums, they have remained exposed to Palazzo Grimani a Santa Maria Formosa up to October 10 2010.
You could be admired The Old Lady (1506) coming from the Academy's Galleries of Venice, The Naked Lady (1508) fresco detached by the walls of the German Warehouse and statement in the Gallery Franchetti to the Ca' d'Oro , as well as the famous one The Storm (1507 -08) also guarded it to the Galleries of the academy of Venice.
Is always remembered as one of the first artists that were ventured with the fresco on the external walls of the Buildings in Venice and the first fresco that painted performed him on the façade of his own residence in Campo San Silvestro. It subsequently came entrusted of to perform the dipintura of Palazzo Soranzo in Campo San Polo and he paint istorie, friezes of little boys and figures in niches, or quite had been devouring for the time, not preserving that a woman's figure with flowers in hand and a part of Volcano in other part that whips Love wrote C. Ridolfi in Le Meraviglie pressed in 1835 to Padua. They had to be particularly endearing if Aretino so it described them:
He dabbled to paint at fresco , and among the a lot of things that it did, he conducted the whole façade of Ca' Soranzo in on the plaza of San Polo, in which besides many pictures and histories and others his imaginations, a picture is seen worked to oil in on limes: thing that has held up to the water, to the sun and the wind and thin it is preserved to today (cifr 1540). There is still a Spring that to me it seems some beautiful things to that he painted fresh, and it is a big sin that the time has consumed her yes cruelly .

Map of the paintings

Immagine del Dipinto Titolo del dipinto Luogo di esposizione Anno
La Vecchia Galleria Franchetti 1506
La Tempesta Gallerie dell'Accademia 1507 - 1508
La Nuda Gallerie dell'Accademia 1508