Brief Biography-Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (Giorgione) was from Castelfranco Veneto. He became a pupil of Giovanni Bellini in Venice at an early age, and the works of Leonardo da Vinci influenced him. He was acquainted with Titian at the same studio, who learned much from him about the effect of chiaroscuro. He painted half-length sitters such as the Doges Loredano and Barbarigo. He painted an altarpiece at the Costanzi chapel in the church of Castelfranco, which elevated him to high esteem along with his portraiture. He did frescos for nobility houses, which have since suffered the fate of time. The plague killed at least twenty thousand citizens in the year of Giorgione’s death. Many of his works were left unfinished; Titian and Sebastiano del Piombo put the final touches on some. Palma Vecchio was another of his followers.