Giorgione

Zorzo da Castelfranco

Venetian, 1477/1478 - 1510

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Venetian Renaissance painter (1478–1510)

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Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgione, Figures and Legs (verso), 1575/1580, black chalk on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.25.c

Figures and Legs (verso)

Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgione · 1575/1580 · black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.25.c

Giulio Campagnola, Giorgione, Head of a Boy (verso), c. 1513, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.25.b

Head of a Boy (verso)

Giulio Campagnola, Giorgione · c. 1513 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.25.b

Giorgione, Giulio Campagnola, A Complex of Rustic Houses Built Over Ruins, 1509/1515, pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid on mid-eighteenth century Italian paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.66

A Complex of Rustic Houses Built Over Ruins

Giorgione, Giulio Campagnola · 1509/1515 · pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid on mid-eighteenth century Italian paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.66

Giorgione, Giulio Campagnola, A Village Nestled at the Foot of a Hill (recto), 1509/1515, pen and brown ink over leadpoint on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.25.a

A Village Nestled at the Foot of a Hill (recto)

Giorgione, Giulio Campagnola · 1509/1515 · pen and brown ink over leadpoint on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.25.a

Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads bowed down toward an infant who lies on a white cloth on the ground in this horizontal painting. The nude baby has a rounded belly, chubby limbs, and short blond hair. To our right and near the edge of the panel, a woman kneels with her hands in prayer, looking toward the baby so she faces our left in profile. She wears a lapis-blue robe over a rose-pink dress, and a white cloth covers her head and shoulders. Behind her and to our left, a man with a white beard, wearing a golden yellow robe, sits or kneels next to a rock at the mouth of a cave cut into a rocky outcropping that extends off the top of the composition. To the left of the baby and at the center of the foreground, a pair of men wear tattered clothing and hold shepherd’s staffs. The man closer to us kneels with his hands pressed together in prayer as the man behind him bends his knee as if to kneel. The landscape recedes deep into the distance on the left half of the painting with a winding river, houses and other buildings, grassy hills, and mountains beneath a blue sky. A small winged angel wearing white looks down on the scene from the upper left corner.
Giorgione, The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1505/1510, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.289

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giorgione · 1505/1510 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1939.1.289

An old man and a young woman holding an infant are seated together in the center of this almost square painting. All three people have pale, peachy skin. To our left, the man sits on a low, tan brick wall with his head bowed to look at the baby on the woman’s lap. A periwinkle-blue cloak is wrapped around the kelly-green robe that covers his shoulders, back, and legs. One hand grips a short staff planted on the ground. His receding white hair and beard are thin and scraggly with tufts sticking out over his ears. The woman sits next to and slightly in front of him, to our right, on a low rock, her body angled toward the man. A long, cobalt-blue cloak is draped around her shoulders and covers her knees over her rose-pink gown. Her honey-brown hair is parted in the middle and gathered at the back of her head. Her brown eyes look down at the infant, who is blond with brown eyes. A long white shawl is tucked into the neckline of her dress, drapes over her shoulders, and wraps under the baby as she cradles his body with one hand under his backside and the other behind his head. The baby lies on his back with his head turned toward the woman, and he points to her with one outstretched arm. The dirt ground is scattered with pebbles that make a loose ring around the trio, with moss-green growth to either side. A brown brick wall fills the upper half of the composition behind the people and extends off the top edge. A rounded arch pierces the back wall to our right of the woman. On the other side of the opening, trees with copper-brown leaves grow up along the left and the landscape beyond opens onto rocky hills with a white, square tower. In the deep distance, the silhouette of a town is painted in robin’s egg-blue against a pale peach horizon line. Thin, white clouds skim across the blue sky above.
Giorgione, The Holy Family, probably c. 1500, oil on panel transferred to hardboard, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.2.8

The Holy Family

Giorgione · probably c. 1500 · oil on panel transferred to hardboard ·  Accession ID  1952.2.8

Shown from the chest up against a black background, two men with peachy skin, one holding a brass-colored sphere made up of interlocking bands, fill this horizontal portrait painting. To our left, a boy or young man looks at us with dark eyes and his coral-pink lips are parted. His curly brown hair falls to his shoulders, and he wears a floppy, denim-blue hat. His emerald-green tunic is lined around the neck, shoulders, and down the front with bands of ruby red, and the neck is tied with a pale purple ribbon. A white shirt underneath shows at the neck and down a slit along the shoulder we can see. Along the bottom edge of the composition, the boy grips a paint brush, a quill pen, a flute, and a compass in his left fist. The man to our right leans toward the boy almost in profile. The second man has ash-brown, curly hair and the suggestion of a short beard on his chin. He has hooded eyes, a prominent nose, and his downturned lips are also parted. He wears a honey-yellow tunic over a white undergarment. A swath of scarlet red over his left shoulder, to our right, could be a cloak. In the space between the people, he holds up the armillary sphere, made up of overlapping bands to create an orb, in his right hand, on our left. A long, white scroll curls around the handle of the sphere, the man’s hand, and down near his wrist. The scroll is inscribed, “NON VALET. INGENIVM.NISI FACTA VALEBVNT.” He looks at the sphere and points to it with his other hand.
Giorgione, Giovanni Borgherini and His Tutor, oil on canvas, Gift of Michael Straight, 1974.87.1

Giovanni Borgherini and His Tutor

Giorgione · · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1974.87.1