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Giorgione
Giorgione, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Giorgione

Venetian painter

Born 1478 · died 1510, aged 31 or 32
Also known as Giorgioni di Castelfranco, Georgoni, Giorgoni

Who was alive at the same time as Giorgione?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  6. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  8. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  10. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  11. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  12. Giorgione, 1478 – 1510
  13. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  14. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  15. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  16. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  17. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  18. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  19. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  20. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  24. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564

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When Giorgione was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 25 or 26, Michelangelo was 2 or 3, Niccolò Machiavelli was 8 or 9, Nicolaus Copernicus was 4 or 5 and Albrecht Dürer was 6 or 7.

When Giorgione died, Leonardo da Vinci was 57 or 58, Michelangelo was 34 or 35, Martin Luther was 26 or 27, Niccolò Machiavelli was 40 or 41 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 36 or 37.

Born during Giorgione’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin and François Rabelais.

Not quite contemporaries: Johannes Gutenberg died about 9 years before Giorgione was born, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born about 15 years after Giorgione died, Luís de Camões was born about 14 years after Giorgione died and Teresa of Ávila was born about 5 years after Giorgione died.

What happened in Giorgione’s lifetime

Where Giorgione’s contemporaries were born

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The 118 best-known contemporaries

118 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Giorgione. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1494.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Babur 1483 – 1530
  27. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  28. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  29. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  30. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  31. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  32. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  33. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  34. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  35. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  36. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  37. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  38. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  39. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  40. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  41. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  42. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  43. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  44. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  45. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  46. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  47. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  48. Jami 1414 – 1492
  49. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  50. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  51. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  52. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  53. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  54. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  55. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  56. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  57. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  58. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  59. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  60. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  61. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  62. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  63. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  64. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  65. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  66. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  67. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  68. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  69. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  70. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  71. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  72. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  73. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  74. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  75. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  76. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  77. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  78. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  79. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  80. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  81. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  82. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  83. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  84. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  85. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  86. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  87. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  88. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  89. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  90. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  91. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  92. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  93. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  94. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  95. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  96. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  97. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  98. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  99. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  100. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  101. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  102. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  103. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  104. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  105. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  106. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  107. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  108. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  109. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  110. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  111. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  112. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  113. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  114. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  115. James IV 1473 – 1513
  116. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  117. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  118. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535