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Portraits, Landscapes

According to Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione started out as a specialist painter of small devotional Madonnas and other works for private collectors, who were then beginning to emerge as a new type of patron.

In 1500, at the age of 23, he was commissioned to paint the portraits of the Doge Agostino Barbarigo and the Condottiere (mercenary leader) Consalvo Ferrante. In 1504, he was asked to paint an altarpiece to commemorate another Condottiere, Matteo Costanzo, in the cathedral of his native Castelfranco.

Giorgione: Venetian Renaissance Painter

This work, known as the Castelfranco Madonna, or Madonna and Child Between Saint Francis and Saint Nicasius, includes a novel background of lush landscape. Such a style would come to fruition in his later Sleeping Venus, whose nude subject blends intimately into the soft, flowing landscape background. It was in the early 1500s - about the same time as Leonardo da Vinci started - that Giorgione began using a very fine chia