Diana and Actaeon
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1580
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.6 × 68.7 cm (25 × 27 in.); Framed: 82.6 × 88.3 × 10.2 cm (32 1/2 × 34 3/4 × 4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jacopo Bassano
Artist
Painting
Jacopo Bassano was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. He was born and died in Bassano del Grappa, and took the village as his surname. Having trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco the Elder, he painted mostly religious paintings, landscapes, and genre scenes. Indeed, he often treated biblical themes in the manner of rural genre scenes, representing peasants, animals, and the agrarian landscape with great accuity. Bassano's pictures were very popular in Venice and, eventually, throughout Europe. His four sons – Francesco Bassano the Younger, Giovanni Battista da Ponte, Leandro Bassano, and Girolamo da Ponte – also became artists and followed him closely in style and subject matter.
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Annunciation to the Shepherds
1705 · Oil on canvas
Christ Crowned with Thorns
1600 · Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Angel
1573 · Black chalk heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Half-length Figure Study for Saint Paul
1561 · Charcoal heightened with brush and lead white, on blue laid paper, edge mounted to cream wove paper
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
1560 · Oil on canvas
Allegory of Fire (Venus in the Forge of Vulcan)
1553 · Black chalk with brush and brown wash, on blue laid paper (discolored to brownish green), laid down on cream wove card
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- Jacopo Bassano
- Year
- 1580
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.6 × 68.7 cm (25 × 27 in.); Framed: 82.6 × 88.3 × 10.2 cm (32 1/2 × 34 3/4 × 4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1580-338080
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified