When the visitor, however, is a work by Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, better known as Giorgione (ca. 1477–1510), you make an exception. Only about ten paintings are attributed today to the ...

Giorgione’s The Tempest (1509) is the first modernist painting. Needless to say, that discovery was not understood then in these, our modern terms. In 1509 no one could know that they were ...

To plan or to improvise? This was, in broad strokes, a vital question facing 16th-century Italian painters. Florentine artists favored careful design, a process that began with disegno, drawing.

Giorgione is a true master of the Italian Renaissance – and an utter enigma. Can a new exhibition pin him down? Of all the great artists of the Italian Renaissance, none is more elusive than ...

Giorgione’s Three Philosophers traveled some 4,220 miles from Vienna to be reunited with Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert in New York after more than four centuries on different ...

The Frick, with these not-to-miss treasures by Bellini and Giorgione, manages to get at the origins of our art-watching obsession. By Blake Gopnik On May 20, 1964, on a hilltop in New Jersey ...