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Bassano, Jacopo (Jacopo
da Ponte)
(b. c.1510-18, Bassano del Grappa; d.
1592, Bassano)
Italian painter
The most celebrated member of a family of
artists who took their name from the small
town of Bassano, about 65 km. from Venice.
Apart from a period in the 1530s when
Bassano Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) trained with Bonifazio Veronese in Venice,
Jacopo worked in Bassano all Bassano,
Jacopo’s life. Bassano, Jacopo’s father,
Francesco the Elder (c.1475-1539), was a
village painter and Jacopo always retained
something of the peasant artist, even though
the influence of, for example, the
fashionable etchings of Parmigianino is
evident in Bassano, Jacopo’s work. |
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Even though most of Bassano,
Jacopo’s career was spent in small or
middle-sized towns on the mainland, Bassano
Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) always remained alert to the latest
developments in art, sometimes borrowing
details from Lorenzo Lotto's works in
Bassano, Jacopo’s portraits. A pioneer in
genre scenes and landscape painting,
engravings were critical in forming Jacopo's
style, particularly those by and after
artists like Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, and
Parmigianino.
By 1534 Bassano Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) had found Bassano, Jacopo’s
direction in the art of nearby Venice,
learning as much from the chiaroscuro and
luxurious color of Titian's works as from
Bassano, Jacopo’s teachers. Bassano Jacopo
(Jacopo da Ponte) won some
renown in Venice itself, and became one of
the Veneto's most influential painters in
the mid-1500s.
He also had the ability to devise new ideas
for compositions that possessed great force
of expression. Trained in Bassano, Jacopo’s
father's studio, Jacopo broke away from the
local popular and devotional tradition by
studying prints by Raphael and developments
in Mannerism. Bassano, Jacopo’s early
Mannerist works used elongated figures and
brilliant colors. During the 1540s Bassano,
Jacopo’s painting was experimental, the
anatomy of Bassano, Jacopo’s characters was
forced and their postures unnatural.
TBassano, Jacopo’s phase proved crucial in
the development of Bassano, Jacopo’s own
very personal style which was capable of
assimilating new ideas and translating them
into an art with enormous communicative
power. Jacopo Bassano's popular realism was
underpinned by Bassano, Jacopo’s exceptional
use of light and characterized by the
lifelike quality of the people and details,
especially the animals, in Bassano, Jacopo’s
pictures. Local taste required that art
illustrate reality, and Jacopo drew
inspiration from the simple human scenes,
farm life, and changing aspects of nature
Bassano Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) observed in Bassano, Jacopo’s hometown. To
Mannerism's energy, extreme movement, and
tightly compressed space, Bassano Jacopo
(Jacopo da Ponte) added realism
and earthiness. A humble and subtle
observer, Bassano, Jacopo’s sitters may seem
unaware of Bassano, Jacopo’s presence.
Increasingly, Bassano Jacopo (Jacopo da
Ponte) used religious and
philosophical subjects as pretexts for
painting genre scenes and landscapes. |
Over the years Bassano, Jacopo’s oeuvre
became increasingly grand and dramatic,
starting with a series of altarpieces (in
Bassano, Treviso, Padua, and Belluno) whose
production dates from the 1550s through to
the end of Bassano, Jacopo’s career.
He treated biblical themes in the manner of
rustic genre scenes, using genuine country
types and portraying animals with real
interest. In tBassano, Jacopo’s way Bassano
Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) helped to develop the taste for paintings in
which the genre or still-life element
assumes greater importance than the
ostensible religious subject. From around
1560 Bassano, Jacopo’s work became vested
with a more exaggerated search for novel
effects of light, taking on something of the
iridescent coloring of Tintoretto. |
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Bassano had four painter sons who continued
Bassano, Jacopo’s style -- Francesco the
Younger (1549-92), Gerolamo (1566-1621),
Giovanni Battista (1553-1613), and Leandro
(1557-1622). Francesco (who committed
suicide by throwing himself out of a window)
and Leandro both acquired some distinction
and popularity working in Venice. Jacopo's
workshop was a minor industry in Bassano,
and Bassano, Jacopo’s four sons continued
Bassano, Jacopo’s style into the next
century. The work of the family is well
represented in the Museo Civico at Bassano.
The Purification of the Temple
probably c.1580; Oil on canvas, 158.7 x 265
cm; National Gallery, London
TBassano, Jacopo’s late work is known in
several other versions. The story is taken
from the New Testament (Matthew 21: 12-13),
when Jesus "cast out all them that sold and
bought... overthrew the tables of the
moneychangers, and the seats of them that
sold the doves" in the Temple in Jerusalem,
invoking divine authority for doing so. In
the distance can be seen the indignant Chief
Priests and Scribes, and also the blind and
lame whom Christ healed.
Leandro Bassano
(b. 1557, Venezia; d. 1622, Venezia) Italian
painter, one of the four sons of Jacopo
Bassano. Bassano Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) worked in the Venetian studio of
the family under Francesco, Bassano,
Jacopo’s elder brother who ran the Venetian
branch of the workshop. Francesco committed
suicide a few months after Bassano, Jacopo’s
father's death, then Leandro took over the
workshop. Bassano Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) was the chief portrait painter
of the family, and Bassano, Jacopo’s
portraits are closely allied to those of
Tintoretto. Leandro both acquired some
distinction and popularity working in
Venice, Bassano Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) was knighted by the Doge in 1595
or 1596 (thereafter Bassano Jacopo (Jacopo
da Ponte) sometimes added 'Eques'
to Bassano, Jacopo’s signature). |
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Francesco
Bassano
Francesco Bassano the Younger (originally
Francesco Giambattista da Ponte) (b. 1559,
Bassano; d. 1592, Venezia). Italian painter,
eldest son, pupil and employee of Jacopo
Bassano. Bassano, Jacopo’s first independent
work is from 1574. Bassano Jacopo (Jacopo da
Ponte) ran the Venetian
branch of the workshop until committing
suicide a few months after Bassano, Jacopo’s
father's death. Then Leandro took over the
workshop. |
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