Giorginoe : Myth and Enigma

Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Giovanna Nepi Scire, Charles Hope

Today Giorgione is regarded as a unique phenomenon in the history of art: almost no other Western painter has left so few secure works and enjoyed such fame for almost five hundred years. His legend is fed not only by the mystery that still surrounds him, both as a man and a painter, but also by the subtle inscrutability he was able to infuse in his paintings.