The Way to Calvary

Jacopo Bassanoabout 1544-5

Details

Title: The Way to Calvary
Creator: Jacopo Bassano
Date Created: about 1544-5
Physical Dimensions: 145.3 x 132.5 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
School: Italian (Venetian)
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Inventory number: NG6490
Artist Dates: active about 1535; died 1592
Artist Biography: Jacopo dal Ponte, called Bassano, is the most famous of a family of painters from Bassano in the Veneto. He was mainly active also in Venice and the Veneto. Bassano developed a rustic, realistic and expressive style indebted to prints by Dürer, and was a pioneer in Italy of night scenes. Jacopo Bassano was probably first trained by his father, Francesco, and then in Venice with Bonifazio Veronese. His earliest known works, produced in Bassano, date from the later 1530s. Bassano was grounded in Venetian painting, particularly in the work of Titian and Lotto. In addition to the influence of Northern prints, his expressive style was indebted, from about 1540, to the work of Raphael and Parmigianino.
Acquisition Credit: Bought with a contribution from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1984

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