Biographies

Giorgione (1477 – 1510) Details of Giorgione’s life and career are sparse and unreliable, but it appears that he was born in Castelfranco and that he studied under the Venetian painter . His original name was probably Giorgio Barbarelli. Very little is known about him; E. H. Gombrich has said that “scarcely five paintings can be ascribed with absolute certainty to his hand.” Giovanni Bellini