Collection: Giorgione

Giorgione (c. 1478-1510) died of the plague at little more than thirty and left very few certain paintings, yet he is one of the most mysterious and most imitated painters in history. Born in Castelfranco Veneto, he worked in Venice for cultivated collectors who wanted pictures to meditate on, not to pray before: in The Tempest a bolt of lightning crosses the sky above a woman nursing a child and a young man standing, and for five centuries no one has been able to say for certain what it tells.

In this collection you will find The Tempest and The Three Philosophers, the Castelfranco Altarpiece, Laura, the Boy with an Arrow, the Three Ages of Man and the Judith in the Hermitage, printed on handmade Amalfi paper.

He trained with Giovanni Bellini; some of his paintings were finished by the young Titian, and scholars still debate which of the two painted others.