Pordenone

Pordenone (in Italian It Pordenone ), nickname of Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis (Corticelli, 1483 - 1539, Ferrare) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school. Vasari, its principal biographer, identifies it as being Giovanni Antonio Licinio .

Biography

Giovanni Antonio Licino was born in 1483 in the village from Corticelli. The nickname of It Pordenone was given to him because of the proximity of its native village with the frioulane city of Pordenone. In bad terms with his own brothers (it was even seriously wounded with the hand by one of them during a brawl), it gave up finally his patronym for the pseudonym of Regillo or De Regillo but signed its works of the name of Antonius Portunaensis or De Portunaonis , is the Latinized form of Antonio de Pordenone . It was made knight by Charles Quint.

Although he was the pupil of the painter Pellegrino da San Daniele, Pordenone was deeply influenced by the style of the Giorgione. The legend making of him a pupil of Giovanni Bellini and a school-fellow of the Titien is false. If the surroundings of Pordenone saw being born several painters from talent, Pordenone remains most famous of them by the strength of its clearly-obscure and the pictorial quality of its complexions.

On this last point, the edition of 1911 of the Encyclopædia Britannica regarded it as " hardly lower than Titien in terms of width, pulp and ton". The two painters were rival besides and Licinio made mine even sometimes be armed while it painted. He excelled in the art of the portrait and practiced with same happiness the techniques of the fresco and the oil-base paint. He was however more gifted for the male figures than for the female figures, these last being somewhat too vigorous, while its direction of the composition often pains to equalize its other merits. Its last works are regarded as less neat and surface. Pordenone also seems to have been famous for a vehemence and an authoritative character which show through in its pictorial style. It is besides the violence of torsions and the boldness of the installations of the characters painted by Pordenone who arrange it, according to Antonio Pinelli, among the artists of the phase of " Expérimentalisme anticlassique" who culminates about the years 1520.

It carried out many works with Pordenone and in the remainder of the the Friuli like to Crémone and Venice. It settled later with Plaisance, city in which always one of its most famous tables of furnace bridge is, Sainte Catherine of Alexandria disputing with the doctors (the artist represented himself there under the features of Saint Paul). It was then invited by Hercules II of Este to the court of Ferrare, where it died (poisoned?) little time after, in 1539.

Among his principal pupils, one can quote Bernardino Licinio known as It Sacchiense , his son-in-law Pomponio Amalteo (who took again his workshop frioulan), like Giovanni Maria Calderari.

Work

Study for the Martyr of Saint Pierre (1526) - John Paul Getty Museum
Holy Bonaventure - London, National Gallery
Saint Louis of Toulouse - London, National Gallery
Holy Prosdocimus and Saint Pierre (1516) - Raleigh, North Carolina Museum off Art
Fresco of the Golgotha (1520-21) - Casement bolt, cathedral
Madonna with the child with four saints (v. 1525) - Susegana close Trévise, parish church
Madonna with the child with saints (1525) - Grandcamp, parish church
Saint Laurent Giustiniani and other saints (1532) - Venice, Gallery dell' Accademia (formerly in Santa Maria dell' Orto)
Holy Martin and Saint Christophe (1528-29) - Venice, San Rocco
the argument of Holy Catherine with pagan philosophers (1529) - Pleasure, cathedral
Worship of the magi (1529) - id.
mystical Weddings of Holy Catherine (1529) - id.
Saint Laurent Giustiniani and two monks, with other saints (1532) - Florence, Galleria dell' Accademia
Holy Sebastien, Holy Roch and Sainte Catherine (1535) - Venice, San Giovanni Elemosinario
Milon devoured by the lion (v. 1535) - University off Chicago
Holy Gothard, Holy Sebastien and Saint Roch - Pordenone, Museo Civico d' Arte
Holy Catherine and martyrs - Conegliano, Museo Civico
Drawings with the library ambrosienne of Milan
Worship of the magi - Trévise, cathedral

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