Jacopo da Ponte known as il Bassano (1515-1592) - workshop

He was born in Bassano around 1515 to the painter Francesco dal Ponte, later known as the Elder, and his first wife Lucia Pizzardini. He initially trained with his father, a modest artist originally from Gallio and the progenitor of the family. According to Ridolfi's account, he then moved to Venice to learn the secrets of the trade in the workshop of Bonifacio de' Pitati. Returning to his homeland, he joined the family business, gradually assuming a leading role. In 1535 he created three large canvases for the public palace of Bassano, depicting Christ and the adulteress, The three children in the fiery furnace, and Susanna and the elders, in which the influence of the master is combined with a careful rendering of the naturalistic data and influences of Titian and Lorenzo Lotto emerge. Between 1535 and 1540 he approached the plasticity of Pordenone. From this period are Samson and the Philistines, now in Dresden, and the Adoration of the Magi, now at Burghley House. The lack of traces of movements has led to the assumption that he spent almost his entire life in Bassano. In 1541 the municipal council granted him tax exemption, and from this it appears that he was the head of the family and therefore his father Francesco had died. From the 1940s he approached Mannerist painting, especially that of Francesco Salviati; Between 1540 and 1550 he executed the Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, now in the Civic Museum of Bassano, the Beheading of the Baptist of Copenhagen, with slender and tapered figures inserted in a rarefied scene, the Ascent to Calvary, where the landscape is taken from German engravings, the Nativity of Hampton Court and the Rest during the Flight into Egypt of Milan. In 1546 he married Elisabetta Merzari (+ September 5, 1601) from whom he had eight children: Francesco Alessandro (January 3, 1547 - March 1547), Francesco Giambattista (January 7, 1549 - July 2, 1592), Giustina (December 27, 1551 - July 22, 1558), Giovanni Battista (March 4, 1553 - 1613), Benedetta Marina (March 21, 1555), Leandro (June 10, 1557 - April 15, 1622), Silvia Giustina (April 17, 1560) and Girolamo (June 3, 1566 - November 8, 1621). All the male children became painters, as did the nephew Jacopo Apollonio, son of Marina and Apollonio Apolloni. Between 1550 and 1560 he created the Last Supper of the Borghese Gallery in Rome, in which he takes up the luminous style of Tintoretto. He produces paintings in the family workshop, together with his children, until his death Origin: Bassano del Grappa, Veneto Dimensions: with frame: W: 115 cm H: 87.5 cm Without frame: 73X105 cm