Giorgione is a famous Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice. Giorgione's famous paintings include The Tempest, Sleeping Venus, Castelfranco Madonna & The Three Philosophers. Giorgione unfortunately died young at 33, but Giorgione have time to leave a lasting legacy to be developed by Titian and 17th-century artists. Giorgione never subordinated line and colour to architecture, nor an artistic effect to a sentimental presentation. He was the first to paint landscapes with figures, the first to paint genre — movable pictures in their own frames with no devotional, allegorical, or historical purpose — and the first whose colours possessed that ardent, glowing, and melting intensity which was so soon to typify the work of all the Venetian School.

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