{"title":"Bassano, Jacopo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacopo Bassano (c.1510-1592)\u003c\/strong\u003e, known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBassano was born around 1510 in the town of Bassano del Grappa, located about 65 km from the city of Venice. His father, Francesco il Vecchio, was a locally successful painter who had established a family workshop that produced mostly religious works. During his youth, Bassano was an apprentice in his father's workshop, where he learned the rudiments of painting while also gaining experience in surveying, mapmaking, and engineering. His skill in these more practical disciplines helps to explain why the representation of the dynamic landscape of the Veneto would come to occupy such an important role in so many of his paintings. Bassano eventually made his way to Venice in the 1530s, where he may have studied under Bonifazio de Pitati (also known as Bonifazio Veronese) and certainly was exposed to the works of artists as Titian and il Pordenone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter his father died in 1539, he returned to Bassano del Grappa and permanently set up residence there, even marrying a local woman, Elisabetta Merzari, in 1546. He took over the management of his family workshop, which would eventually come to include his four sons, Leandro Bassano, Francesco Bassano the Younger, Giovanni Battista da Ponte, and Girolamo da Ponte. After he died in 1592, his sons continued to produce numerous works in his style, making it difficult for later art historians to establish which pieces were created by Jacopo himself and which works were created at the hands of his progeny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBassano's ability to experiment and absorb stylistic qualities from other contemporary artists is evident in the four distinct periods seen in his artistic legacy. Each period shows the artist's work in reconciling his own aesthetics with the styles of his peers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBonifazio de Pitati imparted upon his young pupil a lasting appreciation of Titian's work, the influence of which is clearly seen in his early pieces. Bassano's earliest paintings exhibit his lifelong obsession with brilliant colours that he had seen in Titian's beginning works, particularly in Bassano's Supper at Emmaus (1538). In this commission for a local church, Bassano fills the canvas with rich, luminous colours that help distinguish the figures from their surrounding environment. He breaks away from the practices of his contemporaries by placing the figure of Christ towards the back of the scene and allowing the lay people around him to play a more significant part in the composition of the piece. They are also unique in their dress. Instead of clothing his figures in the draping, shapeless fabrics many Renaissance artists equated with Classical Roman fashion, Bassano chose to feature figures in 16th-century clothing. The details of this piece are the most often discussed aspect of it. To many art historians, his inclusion of various food on the tables, a dog lying down and a cat slinking around the chairs, as well as numerous secondary characters, is a testament to Bassano's practice of drawing from life instead of relying on stylistic conventions of the age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBassano's paintings from the 1530-50s betray a range of artistic influences, including Dürer, Parmigianino, Tintoretto, and Raphael, whose compositions he would have known through prints, of which he must have been an avid collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the late 1550s onwards, Bassano's work was characterised by an interest in rustic subjects. Drawing upon pastoral paintings and prints by Titian and others, he created compositions that show shepherds and animals moving through the countryside. Rather than placing religious scenes in Classical Roman settings (as his Renaissance counterparts did), he placed figures in a more natural landscape, where the trees and the flowers were as carefully rendered as his figures. Many of his paintings are set in the landscape around his hometown of Bassano del Grappa. Frequently showing scenes of agricultural labor, these paintings reflect the ongoing effort to transform the Venetian mainland into a more agriculturally productive region, but some of his works also seem to hint at the dangers of environmental mismanagement. Indeed, Bassano's altarpiece The Flood of the Colmeda, painted for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Feltre in 1576, addresses the dangerous unintended consequences of aggressive human intervention into the landscape. The painting represents a devastating 1564 inundation that was widely understood to have been the result of deforestation and agricultural expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBassano also experimented with the representation of light in his later works. In the final decades of his career, he became one of the first artists to paint a \"nocturne\", or a painting in a nighttime landscape with artificial lighting. 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