Giorgione Giorgio Barbarella Biography

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 Giorgione Giorgio Barbarella (1477 - 1510)

Giorgione Giorgio Barbarella was born in Castelfranco Veneto in 1477.  According to historical documents and letters, this brilliant and revolutionary painter had worked in Venice in the years before his death.  

In 1508 he worked at the exterior frescos of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi with another great Venetian master, Tiziano.   Among the surviving paintings that are attributed to him with reasonable authority, La Vecchia [The Old Woman] and La Tempesta [The Tempest] (c. 1503-5) are on display at the Accademia Museum in Venice. His Madonna and Child with St. Francis and S. Liberale (c. 1505), commissioned by the condottiere Tuzio Costanzo, is in the right aisle of the Cathedral [duomo] of Giorgione's home town, Castelfranco Veneto. Other generally accepted attributions include Judith (c. 1504-5) at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Three Magi (c. 1506) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and Sleeping Venus (c. 1507-8) at the Gallery in Dresden.   Giorgione was one of the victims of a great plague and died in October, 1510, in Venice.

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