Follower of JACOPO BASSANO (Bassano del Grappa,... Lot 142
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Follower of JACOPO BASSANO (Bassano del Grappa, Italy, ca. 1510 - 1592); 17th century.
"Allegory of Winter".
Oil on canvas. Re-coloured.
It has a 20th century frame with faults.
Measurements: 95 x 134 cm; 116 x 155 cm (frame).
In this image of costumbrista character the author presents us a group of people concentrated in different tasks. The author structures the image in different planes, most of them populated by characters; some of them eat, another one cuts firewood, some of them seem to be talking and at the end others are warming themselves by the fire. In the last shot we can see the mountains that close the scene, completely covered in snow. This feature, together with the fact that the pig is being slaughtered, indicates that the artist was attempting to depict winter not only through the snow but also through the actions of the figures.
Jacopo Bassano was one of the great masters of Venetian painting, the son and father of painters, and specialised in works, both secular and religious, full of characters and animals of a genre of genre painting, heralding the creation of this genre in the following century. He was already highly esteemed in his day for his precision and taste for detail in depicting characters, animals and settings. His first dated work dates from 1528 and around 1533 he was already in Venice, where he began to use engravings by Titian, Dürer, Agostino Veneziano and Marcantonio Raimondi for his compositions, interpreting them in his own personal style. The following year he gained access to a more powerful and wealthy clientele through Andrea Navagero, at which point his work began to be more influenced by Raphael, and he moved towards a style closer to Parmigianino and Moretto around 1540.
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