Jacopo Bassano

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Late self-portrait, Vienna , Kunsthistorisches Museum

Jacopo da Ponte , called Bassano (* 1510-1515 in Bassano del Grappa , † 13. February 1592 ) was an Italian painter of Mannerism . He lived and worked in the Republic of Venice . Because of his place of birth and death, which is about 65 km from Venice, the name Jacopo Bassano was given to him.

Life and artistic development

With his father Francesco da Ponte d. Ä. (1475–1539), a rather provincial painter in Bassano, the son began his training, which he continued from around 1530 in Venice with Bonifazio Veronese . Bassano took over the strong colors from this, and less so from the Titian , who was so powerful in Venice . His work soon reveals influences from Lorenzo Lotto and Pordenone . After the death of his father, Jacopo finally returned to rural Bassano, where he remained active for the rest of his life.

Accordingly, he often enriches his pictures, which are mainly devoted to religious themes, with realistic motifs of rural life (clothing, animals, tools), so that they have been characterized as forerunners of pastoral and rural genre painting.

In the 1540s, the influence of the Venetian and Tuscan painting of Mannerism became clearer, characterized by dramatic lighting effects, ornamental contour lines and moving physicality. Since the middle of the century he has been painting not only large altars but also small landscape formats for private collectors. In the last years of his life, the dynamism of his colors is increased by the fact that he lets them shine as effective spots of light from darker backgrounds. The landscape spaces widen, the painting style becomes looser and more atmospheric. Some scenes are completely immersed in nocturnal moods from which spots of color and highlights light up; he painted some of these small-format nocturnal pieces on the dark, smooth background of slates. As one of the first artists he liked to use colored chalks in his drawings.

In Bassano's workshop, especially in his late career, four of his sons also took part in the extensive and sometimes even series production of pictures: Francesco , Giovanni Battista (1553–1613), the portrait painter Leandro (1557–1622) and Girolamo (1566–1621) . It is not always certain to whom individual works can be ascribed to . The workshop continued into the 17th century.

The works of the Bassanos can be found scattered in the great museums of the world, but important images have also remained in Bassano del Grappa and its Museo Civico.

  • Selection of paintings in chronological order

  • Carrying the Cross (1535–1538), Toulouse

  • Last Supper (around 1542), Rome , Galleria Borghese

  • The Miraculous Fish Catch (1545), Washington, National Gallery of Art

  • Portrait of a Cardinal (around 1545), Budapest

  • Adoration of the Magi (around 1540–1545), Edinburgh

  • The Road to Golgotha ​​(around 1545–1550)

  • Adoration of the Magi (around 1552), Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum

  • Adoration of the Magi (around 1563/1564)

  • Crucifixion (around 1575), MNAC , Barcelona

  • Adoration of the Magi (1575–1580), Barcelona, MNAC

  • Bassano workshop: Noah's Ark (after 1579), Paris, Louvre

  • Baptism of Christ in the Jordan (1592) Met, New York

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literature

  • Emil Maurer : Mannerism. Figura serpentinata and other ideals of figures. NZZ libro, Zurich 2001 and Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2001 ISBN 3-7705-3523-5 ; as TB ISBN 3-85823-791-4 , passim
  • Bastian Eclercy et al. a .: Titian and the Renaissance in Venice , Munich: Prestel, 2019
  • P. Zampetti: Bassano , In: Kindler Malereilexikon, Munich: dtv, 1976, pp. 229–232.
  • Hans Aurenhammer: Bassano, Jacopo , In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Vol. 7, 1993, pp. 385-388.

Web links

Commons : Jacopo dal Ponte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Jacopo Bassano in the catalog of the Königliche Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden (1887)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence


personal data
SURNAME Bassano, Jacopo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ponte, Jacopo da (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1515
PLACE OF BIRTH Bassano del Grappa
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1592
Place of death Bassano del Grappa