Il Pordenone

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Pordenone
Modern head in Udine
Born
Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis

c. 1484
Pordenone
Died14 January 1539
Ferrara
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting
MovementMannerism

Pordenone, Il Pordenone in Italian, is the byname of Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis (c. 1484 – 14 January 1539), an Italian

Giovanni Antonio Licinio. He painted in several cities in northern Italy "with speed, vigor, and deliberate coarseness of expression and execution—intended to shock".[1]

He appears to have visited Rome, and learnt from its

Scuola Grande della Carità in Venice, now the Gallerie dell'Accademia, the main art museum, where he worked with the young Tintoretto
.

His life was as energetic and restless as his art; he married three times, and was accused in court of hiring criminals to kill his brother to avoid sharing their inheritance. He perhaps had some influence on later works by Titian and more clearly on Tintoretto, who to some extent took over his position as the leading painter of large mural commissions in Venice. Titian and Pordenone were rivals in his last decade and gossip even claimed that his death was suspicious.[3]

Biography

Debate over Immaculate Conception, Farnese collection in Capodimonte Museum, Naples; originally from the Church of the Annunziata, Cortemaggiore.

His name derives from being born in

cavaliere by the Hungarian King John Zápolya
.

As a painter, Pordenone was a scholar of

St. Roch
, in the Dome of Pordenone is considered his own portrait.

Cathedral of Cremona

He was invited by Duke

Ercole II of Ferrara to court; here soon afterwards, in 1539, he died, not without suspicion of poison committed by Titian. His later works are comparatively careless and superficial; and generally he is better in male figures than in female-the latter being somewhat too sturdy-and the composition of his subject-pictures is scarcely on a level with their other merits. Pordenone appears to have been a vehement self-asserting man, to which his style as a painter corresponds.[6]

Three of his principal pupils were

Giovanni Maria Calderari.[6]

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Partial anthology of works

Notes

  1. ^ Hartt, 579
  2. ^ Hartt, 578-580; Nichols, 30 (Michelangelo)
  3. ^ Hartt, 579; Nichols, 31-32
  4. ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 101.
  5. ^ Carlo Ridolfi quoted in Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Giovanni Antonio Pordenone" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  6. ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 102.
  7. ^ J. Paul Getty Museum. Study of the Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr. Archived 2010-07-18 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2008-08-27.
  8. ^ Saint Bonaventure Archived 2004-08-28 at the Wayback Machine - From National Gallery website
  9. ^ Saint Louis of Toulouse Archived 2004-08-28 at the Wayback Machine - From National Gallery website
  10. ^ Opere Pittoriche Famose Archived 2006-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ The Iconography of Saint Sebastian Archived 2006-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Church website Archived 2005-12-25 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ ARGOMENTI ARTE & STORIA DELL' ARTE
  14. ^ "Giuditta | Galleria Borghese - Sito ufficiale". galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it. Archived from the original on 2018-10-28.

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