Titian perhaps had the greater intellect.

Giorgione's pictures vary according to his mood, while Titian's express a less changeable personality.

In spite of his youth, Giorgione made a profound impression upon all the artists of his time.
They did not copy his designs, but the beauty of his pictures made them look at the world with his romantic eyes and paint in his dreamy mood.

It was almost as though Giorgione had absorbed the romance of Venice into his pictures, so that for a time no Venetian painter could express Venetian romance except in Giorgione's way.
But in 1518, eight years after Giorgione's death, another great innovating master was born at Venice, Tintoret by name, who in his turn opened new visions of the world to the artists of his day.

While painting in the rest of Italy was becoming mannered and sentimental, lacking in power and originality, Tintoret in Venice was creating masterpieces with a very fury of invention and a corresponding swiftness of hand.