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. Their ...

In 1568, the Italian historian Giorgio Vasari published a biography on the Venetian painter Giorgione in which he complains that his subject “thought of nothing save making figures according to his ...

When was the first landscape painting made in Europe? And the first abstraction? Art historians love these questions about origins, for identifying the beginning of a tradition is essential for a ...

Giorgione is credited with revolutionizing Venetian painting, yet he signed no works and died of plague before he turned 35. His small oeuvre (no more pictures than Johannes Vermeer) is contested; ...

The arrival of a single painting in the United States is not often cause for a special exhibition. When the visitor, however, is a work by Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, better known as Giorgione ...

Giorgione’s reputation was eclipsed by Titian, but this early avant garde icon revolutionised the Renaissance with his raw portrayals of human weakness The most shocking work of art on show in London ...

Most of the paintings in the collection have been hailed as the work of the 16th-century Venetian genius and then debunked An exhibition opening this week at the Royal Academy represents centuries of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The poet Gabriele D’Annunzio described Giorgione as “more myth than man”. Considered the father of the Venetian High ...

Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since 2003. He has presented more than 60 hours of TV and radio for the BBC (Modern Masters, Treasures of Ancient Egypt, An Art Lovers’ Guide) ...

Giorgione was an enigmatic Venetian painter. That's probably partly to do with the fact many of his works have been lost. And that's why the current Royal Academy exhibition failed to excite us; the ...