Giorgione

Giorgio da Castelfranco, called Giorgione, probably trained in Venice under Giovanni Bellini and died there in 1510, still in his thirties, reportedly of plague. Only about six paintings are firmly his, yet with the young Titian he set Venetian painting on its course of soft colour, atmosphere and mood. The meaning of his subjects, above all The Tempest, has never been settled. Titian finished some of his pictures, one reason attributions between the two remain disputed.