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Painting by Giorgione showing Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in a stable with two shepherds kneeling in adoration, set in a rocky landscape with trees and distant buildings. The Tempest, oil on canvas by Giorgione, c. 1505; in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice. 77 × 74 cm. Judith, oil on canvas by Giorgione, 1504; in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. 144 cm × 68 cm. The Holy Family, oil on panel transferred to hardboard, by Giorgione, c. 1500; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 37.3 × 45.6 cm. Painting Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione shows Mary, Joseph, and shepherds gathered around the infant Jesus at the entrance of a rocky cave, with a landscape in the background.
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George Martin Richter, Giorgio da Castelfranco, Called Giorgione (1937), is a catalogue raisonné with complete bibliography up to 1936. Terisio Pignatti, Giorgione (1971; originally published in Italian, 1969), contains documentation and bibliography reproduced from Richter but brought up to date. Ludwig Baldass and Günther Heinz, Giorgione (1965; originally published in German, 1964), is also useful in providing more modern scholarship. Salvatore Settis, Giorgione’s Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject (1990; originally published in Italian, 1978), analyzes a single painting.

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First paragraph modernization. Mar 06, 2024
Add new Web site: Virtual Uffizi Gallery - Biography of Giorgione. May 23, 2021
Add new Web site: Famous Painters - Biography of Giorgione. May 23, 2021
Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Biography of Giorgione. Apr 18, 2019
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Add new Web site: Olga's Gallery - Biography of Giorgione. Jun 21, 2013
Add new Web site: Official Site of Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, India. Jun 21, 2013
Add new Web site: Lib-Art - Biography of Giorgione. Jun 21, 2013
Added photograph. Apr 11, 2013
Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Giorgione. Sep 29, 2008
Article revised and updated. Jun 18, 2007
Bibliography revised. Jun 18, 2007
Added new Web site: Olga's Gallery - Giorgione. Jun 19, 2006
Article revised. May 11, 2001
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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