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  On the trace of Jacopo Da Ponte
The profound attachment of Jacopo to his land is evidenced by an important collection of works still preserved in the comunities that once commissioned them; still surrounded by the same light and those same spaces known by the artist in his lifetime.
The dilated figures of the Saints recall the ones depicted by Pordenone, whereas the face of St. Girolamo is similar to St. Anthony Abbot’s depicted in the Lotto altar-piece for the Cathedral of Asolo.
Jacopo painted this altar-piece for the Church of Enego, in the same period in which he depicted the frescoes of the choir, nave and ceiling.
www.comune.bassano.vi.it /citta/itinerari/jacopo_eng.htm   (1829 words)

  
 Biography
Trained in his father's studio, Jacopo broke away from the local popular and devotional tradition by studying prints by Raphael and developments in Mannerism.
Jacopo Bassano's popular realism was underpinned by his exceptional use of light and characterized by the lifelike quality of the people and details, especially the animals, in his pictures.
Bassano had four painter sons who continued his style - Francesco the Younger (1549-92), Gerolamo (1566-1621), Giovanni Battista (1553-1613), and Leandro (1557-1622).
www.wga.hu /bio/b/bassano/jacopo/biograph.html   (417 words)

  
 Jacopo Bassano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His father Francesco Bassano the Elder was a "peasant artist" and Jacopo adopted some of his style as he created religious paintings with novel features including animals, farmhouses, and landscapes.
Having worked in Venice and other Italian towns, he established a workshop in Bassano with his four sons: Francesco the Younger (1549–1592), Gerolamo (1566–1621), Giovanni Battista (1553–1613), and Leandro (1557–1622).
Jacopo Bassano in the "A World History of Art"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacopo_Bassano   (220 words)

  
 Museum News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
FORT WORTH, Tex.—Jacopo Bassano’s masterpiece in the field of portraiture, the Lansdowne Franciscan Friar from the Earl of Shelburne’s historic collection in Bowood House, Wiltshire, has been acquired through private treaty by the Kimbell Art Foundation, it was announced today by the president of the board of directors, Mrs.
Held in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of the painter, the Fort Worth Bassano exhibition affirmed the enormous range and authority of the master’s painting and helped to establish his reputation as one of the greatest and most influential artists in Italy in the 16th century.
Born in the North Italian town of Bassano, near Venice, Jacopo dal Ponte, commonly known as Jacopo Bassano, apprenticed with his father, the minor painter Francesco dal Ponte, before traveling to Venice in the early 1530s to study with Bonifazio de’ Pitati (called Bonifazio Veronese).
www.kimbellart.org /news/news_acq_bassano.cfm   (1074 words)

  
 Anotherealm - The Nano-Annunciation: Jacopo Bassano's Final Work by Emily Cleaver - Flash Fiction
Jacopo Bassano put the last brushstroke to his finest and final work on the day his nano-soul left him.
Her hair hung on her shoulder like a skein of silk and her tear-filled eyes were raised in ecstasy towards the light of macromolecular transformation which poured through the window from the heavens.
Jacopo wiped paint from his hands with a cloth and leant on the sill to survey the view one last time.
www.anotherealm.com /modules/articles/article.php?id=180   (696 words)

  
 "THE MERCHANTS CAST OUT OF THE TEMPLE"
The Bassano are three generations of painters named da Ponte, though traditionally known after the name of their home town, Bassano del Grappa, situated at the Véneto, at the foot of the Dolomite Alps.
Jacopo is known for the iconography innovation consisting of incorporating numerous bucolic and pastoral elements in his religious paintings.
Many of them are to leave the temple by the right door, impelled by the choleric figure of Christ, in the background, rather out of place in his role of main character of the scene.
museoprado.mcu.es /icuadro_junio_2002.html   (377 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Jacopo Bassano (European Art To 1599, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jacopo Bassano[yA´kOpO bAs-sA´nO] Pronunciation Key, c.1515–1592, Venetian painter, whose original name was Jacopo, or Giacomo, da Ponte, b.
Bassano first studied with his father, Francesco da Ponte, and then went to Venice.
Of Jacopo's four sons, his most worthy followers were Francesco Bassano, 1549–92, whose biblical and pastoral scenes were similar in style to his father's, and Leandro Bassano, 1558–1623, who painted altarpieces and portraits as well as pastoral genre.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bassano.html   (302 words)

  
 Jacopo Bassano (Getty Museum)
Even though he worked in a small town, Jacopo Bassano was one of the Veneto's most influential painters in the mid-1500s.
Local taste required that art illustrate reality, and Jacopo drew inspiration from the simple human scenes, farm life, and changing aspects of nature he observed in his hometown.
Jacopo's workshop was a minor industry in Bassano, and his four sons continued his style into the next century.
www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=441   (204 words)

  
 Short Bio of Jacopo Bassano (1553-1613)
Bassano, Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte) (c.1510/18 - 1592).
His 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 his work.
Bassano had four painter sons who continued his style — Francesco the Younger (1549-92), Gerolamo (1566-1621), Giovanni Battista (1553-1613), and Leandro (1557-1622).
wn.elib.com /Bio/Artists/Bassano.html   (264 words)

  
 Jacopo Bassano (1510 - 1592) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Jacopo Bassano initially studied under his father in the town of Bassano.
Jacopo del Sellaio (Jacopo di Arcangelo), The Legend of Brutus and Portia, circa 1485
Jacopo Amigoni, Jupiter and Callisto, circa 1740 - 1750
www.wwar.com /masters/b/bassano-jacopo.html   (710 words)

  
 Leandro Bassano ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Jacopo Bassano - The Purification of the Temple c.
Jacopo Bassano - The Journey to Calvary c.
Jacopo Bassano - The Supper at Emmaus c.
www.wwar.com /masters/b/bassano-leandro.html   (543 words)

  
 WebMuseum: Bassano (family da Ponte)
Even though most of his career was spent in small or middle-sized towns on the mainland, he always remained alert to the latest developments in art, sometimes borrowing details from Lorenzo Lotto's works in his 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.
Italian painter, eldest son, pupil and employee of Jacopo Bassano.
www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/bassano   (971 words)

  
 Jacopo Bassano (1510/18-1592) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Title: Jacopo Bassano : e l'incisione : la fortuna dell'arte bassanesca nella grafica di riproduzione dal XVI al XIX secolo : Museo civico, 5 settembre-6 dicembre 1992 / a cura di Enrica Pan ; saggio introduttivo di Michele Cordaro.
Title: Jacopo Bassano i Dal Ponte : una dinastia di pittori : opere nel Veneto = The Dal Ponte : a dynasty of painters : work in the Venetian region / Livia Alberton Vinco Da Sesso.
Title: Jacopo Bassano and his public : moralizing pictures in an age of reform, ca.
www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcbassano1.htm   (591 words)

  
 TIME.com: Renaissance in Bassano -- Sep. 29, 1952 -- Page 1
As "Jacopo Bassano," he was once ranked with such contemporary greats as Titian and Tintoretto.
Jacopo's father Francesco was a painter of Madonnas and Christ childs for mountain churches, had passed the art on to his son.
Jacopo started them off as apprentices at the age of 15, spent years teaching them the fine points of his art.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,935769,00.html   (708 words)

  
 Jacopo Da Ponte Bassano
Jacopo Bassano is an italian that has the roots in a distinguished family of Venetian painters.
Jacopo Bassano lived in a rural region, so all his inspiration came from these surroundings.
Although he used warm colours, Bassano was influenced by the Venetian masters of that moment, such as Titian and Veronese.
www.artline.ro /D-Jacopo-Da-Ponte-Bassano-1616-2.html   (470 words)

  
 Jacopo Bassano Online
Jacopo Bassano at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
Jacopo Bassano at the National Gallery, London, UK Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
All images and text on this Jacopo Bassano page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/bassano_jacopo.html   (345 words)

  
 Alibris: Jacopo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This handsome, large-format volume is the first full-color treatment of the drawings of Pontormo, the most influential personality of Florentine Mannerism--a distinctive style that dominated the 75-year span between the High Renaissance and the early Baroque periods.
Alongside Titian and Veronese, Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) is one of the most highly regarded 16th century Venetian painters, yet his Gonzaga Cycle, which belongs among the finest works of this era, has not been properly appreciated until now.
Jacopo Carrucci, called Pontormo after his birth place, was the main representative of Florentine Mannerism, the 75-year period that links the High Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Jacopo   (749 words)

  
 St. Jerome by BASSANO, Jacopo
Although he worked mainly in his native Bassano (from where he gets his name), away from the main artistic centres, Jacopo Bassano played an active role in the cultural life of the time.
Pupil of Bonifacio Veronese and student of Titian, Pordenone, Lorenzo Lotto and Savoldo, and an admirer of German engravings, he was inspired by Mannerism and by Parmigianino in particular.
In fact, for Bassano effects of colour and light are essential to achieve a material reality, while for El Greco they are the fundamental elements of his stunning abstract precepts.
gallery.euroweb.hu /html/b/bassano/jacopo/s_jerome.html   (306 words)

  
 History of Art: The High Renaissance, Mannerism - Jacopo Bassano
In the first half of the 1530s Jacopo trained in Venice with Bonifazio de’ Pitati, whose influence, with echoes of Titian, is evident in the Flight into Egypt (1534; Bassano del Grappa, Mus.
Civ.) for the Palazzo Communale, Bassano del Grappa, in which the narrative schemes learnt from Bonifazio are combined with a new naturalism.
From 1535 he concentrated on fresco painting, executing, for example, the interior and exterior decoration (1536–7) of S Lucia di Tezze, Vicenza, which demonstrates the maturity of his technique.
www.all-art.org /early_renaissance/bassano1.html   (203 words)

  
 About Jacopo Bassano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
- 1592), although Jacopo Bassano, after studies in Venice, went back home to take over the family workshop in the provincial town of Bassano, he managed to keep abreast of all the latest trends in the art world.
The Adoration of the Magi, a work from his mature period, bears all the traits of his particular variant of Mannerism.
The figures, nearly abstract elements in an ever-changing play of diagonal lines, the refined contiguity of bold simplification and realistic detail drawing, the use of clashing, cold and acid colors - all these lend the familiar scene a willfully original tone, a tone that exactly expressed the Mannerist propensity for the unusual and the striking.
www.vincent.nl /gallery/about/bassano.htm   (114 words)

  
 Aikema, B.: Jacopo Bassano and His Public: Moralizing Pictures in an Age of Reform, ca. 1535-1600.
Aikema, B.: Jacopo Bassano and His Public: Moralizing Pictures in an Age of Reform, ca.
Aikema argues that Bassano developed an imagery that expressed itself in an antithetical mode of representation--in which a good Christian way of life is contrasted with a materialistic concept of human conduct.
The author challenges the common belief that Bassano switched to rural settings and genre painting late in life in order to satisfy art collectors' demands for "pastoral" and "low-life" subjects.
press.princeton.edu /titles/5825.html   (315 words)

  
 The Miraculous Draught of Fishes by Jacopo Bassano
Jacopo Bassano, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (detail), 1545, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund 1997.21.1
Two additions may have been made for the painting's patron, Pietro Pizzamano, governor of the town of Bassano del Grappa—the view of the town and Monte Grappa just behind it, which, in reality, were not situated together.
When he finished his term in Bassano, he took this painting with him to hang in his family's palazzo in Venice.
permanent.access.gpo.gov /lps10836/image_10.htm   (127 words)

  
 Jacopo Bassano Last Supper
If you'd like another view of the Last Supper situation, here is one painted by Jacopo Bassano in 1542.
While Leonardo made them all in one long row, Jacopo went more for the 'simple fishermen' approach although the same complaints about authentic table, chairs, etc. still hold.
Once again we see glass containers for the wine so you can SEE the red wine within, and this time there is a central pitcher.
www.lisashea.com /hobbies/art/bassano.html   (171 words)

  
 University of California, Santa Cruz /All Locations
Jacopo Bassano : i Dal Ponte : una dinastia di pittori : opere nel Veneto = Jacopo Bassano : the Dal Ponte : a dynasty of painters : work in the Venetian region / Livia Alberton Vinco Da Sesso.
Bassano del Grappa : Ghedina & Tassotti, 1992.
Title on back cover: Jacopo Bassano : Dal Ponte : a dynasty of artists : works in Venetia.
cruzcat.ucsc.edu:2082 /record=b1284439   (90 words)

  
 Official Site Borghese Gallery Jacopo Bassano - Last Supper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jacopo Bassano's Last Supper, painted in 1542, is one of the masterpieces of 16th century Italian painting.
Instead of the elegant grouping of figures in Leonardos' painting, which inspired it, this dramatic scene features barefoot fishermen at the crucial moment when Christ asks who will betray him, and the light passing through a glass of wine stains the clean tablecoth red.
Jacopo Bassano and His Public : Moralizing Pictures in a Age of Reform, Ca.
www.galleriaborghese.it /borghese/en/eultcena.htm   (127 words)

  
 artnet.com: Resource Library: Bassano, §I: (4) Leandro Bassano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He entered the workshop of his father when very young and soon developed a style of painting strongly based on drawing.
From 1575 Leandro’s participation in the workshop increased, and he became his father’s principal assistant after (3) Francesco Bassano il giovane moved to Venice in 1578.
Jacopo’s will indicated that Leandro should take over the running of the shop, for Francesco was infirm after his suicide attempt, Giambattista was mediocre and incompetent and Gerolamo was combining the painter’s trade with medical studies at the Univeristy of Padua.
www.artnet.com /library/00/0067/T006781.asp   (263 words)

  
 Page 10 - Jacopo Bassano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In this work by Jacopo Bassano, Jesus is shown standing behind the sleeping John.
The apostles are, as in da Vinci's rendition (see Page 8), using loud gestures and discussing the existence of a betrayer among them.
Unlike the excited apostles, Christ is calm and serene, unaffected by the activity around him.
students.roanoke.edu /groups/IL277CC/green/mypage10.htm   (157 words)

  
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Jacopo Bassano - Artist, Art - Jacopo Bassano
He despondently returned to his nearby native town, whose name, Bassano, became his own because he rarely signed his work, and when he did, merely brushed the modest words, "Jack, by the bridge at Basson." After almost four centuries of neglect, Bassano finally began getting recognition.
He was the first Italian to paint gentle landscapes that resembled the actual (showing 500 of 1963 characters).
www.askart.com /askart/artist.aspx?artist=11009391   (261 words)

  
 Francesco Bassano Online (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Francesco Bassano in the Web Gallery of Art
Search AllPosters for reproductions of works by Francesco Bassano
All images and text on this Francesco Bassano page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /artists/bassano_francesco.html   (224 words)

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