Giorgione

The most comprehensive overview in print on the Renaissance master of Venetian sensuality

Famous for his enduringly popular and canonical masterpieces such as The Sleeping Venus and The Tempest--often considered the first true landscape painting in Western art--Zorzi da Castelfranco, known as Giorgione (1474 or 1478-1510) was, along with Titian, one of the greatest masters of the Venetian Renaissance. Although his brief career lasted just over 10 years, the handful of surviving paintings cre...