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Giorgione

1478 - 1510

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Giorgione (Italian: [dʒorˈdʒoːne], UK: , US: ; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; 1477–78 or 1473–74 – 17 September 1510) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are firmly attributed to him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giorgione has received more than 598,730 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Giorgione is the 61st most popular painter (down from 60th in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from Italy (down from 170th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Painter.

Giorgione is most famous for his painting "The Tempest" because it is one of the first paintings to use a single vanishing point.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giorgione ranks 61 out of 1,421Before him are Diego Rivera, Jean-François Millet, Egon Schiele, Artemisia Gentileschi, Kazimir Malevich, and Anthony van Dyck. After him are Jackson Pollock, Giovanni Bellini, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Théodore Géricault, Alfred Sisley, and Piero della Francesca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Giorgione ranks 6Before him are Thomas More, Francisco Pizarro, Pope Clement VII, Hayreddin Barbarossa, and Philip I of Castile. After him are Baldassare Castiglione, John, Prince of Asturias, Jan Gossaert, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hatuey, and Surdas. Among people deceased in 1510, Giorgione ranks 2Before him is Sandro Botticelli. After him are Bianca Maria Sforza, Catherine Cornaro, Mihnea cel Rău, Francisco de Almeida, Juan de la Cosa, Catherine of Genoa, Muhammad Shaybani, Giovanni Sforza, Mandukhai, and Sidonie of Poděbrady.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giorgione ranks 178 out of 4,668Before him are Catherine of Siena (1347), Pope Sixtus IV (1414), Pompey (-106), Pope Clement XI (1649), Catullus (-84), and Pope Pius IV (1499). After him are Pope Gregory XII (1335), Pope Julius III (1487), Suetonius (70), Pope Paul IV (1476), Enzo Ferrari (1898), and Pope Leo I (390).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giorgione ranks 15Before him are Tintoretto (1518), Masaccio (1401), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Paolo Veronese (1528), and Artemisia Gentileschi (1593). After him are Giovanni Bellini (1430), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Piero della Francesca (1415), Pietro Perugino (1446), Andrea Mantegna (1431), and Fra Angelico (1400).