Giorgione
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Author: Villa, Giovanni C.F.
Famous for masterpieces such as 'The Sleeping Venus' and 'The Tempest', Giorgione was one of the greatest masters of the Venetian Renaissance. This volume – the most comprehensive overview currently in print – chronicles Giorgione’s life and career, reproducing and providing close readings of key works. Placing the stories surrounding the paintings in conversation with his contemporaries', this publication provides audiences with fresh context for a great genius.Although his brief career lasted just over 10 years, the handful of surviving paintings credited to Giorgione have established him as a major Renaissance innovator; alongside his accomplishments in landscape, he also revolutionised portraiture with his introduction of refined, highly nuanced facial renderings, and helped advance the Venetian style of heightened chromatic sensuality. Giorgione’s painting immerses bodies and landscape into a soft and dense light, with the rich colour palette established by Bellini, creating a keen sense of harmony between man and nature.
ISBN 9788836648771. Silvana Editoriale . hb. 272 pages. 150 colour ills. 32 x 24 cm.
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Famous for masterpieces such as 'The Sleeping Venus' and 'The Tempest', Giorgione was one of the greatest masters of the Venetian Renaissance. This volume – the most comprehensive overview currently in print – chronicles Giorgione’s life and career, reproducing and providing close readings of key works. Placing the stories surrounding the paintings in conversation with his contemporaries', this publication provides audiences with fresh context for a great genius.Although his brief career lasted just over 10 years, the handful of surviving paintings credited to Giorgione have established him as a major Renaissance innovator; alongside his accomplishments in landscape, he also revolutionised portraiture with his introduction of refined, highly nuanced facial renderings, and helped advance the Venetian style of heightened chromatic sensuality. Giorgione’s painting immerses bodies and landscape into a soft and dense light, with the rich colour palette established by Bellini, creating a keen sense of harmony between man and nature.
ISBN 9788836648771. Silvana Editoriale . hb. 272 pages. 150 colour ills. 32 x 24 cm.
available