Jacopo Bassano and His Public: Moralizing Pictures in an Age of Reform, Ca. 1535-1600

by Bernard Aikema

Book Overview

Widely acknowledged as one of the first landscape and genre painters in Italy, Jacopo Bassano (ca. 1510-1592) was highly regarded during his career for his brilliant treatment of light and color and for his innovative rural themes. Although he can be viewed as a pioneer pointing the way to the Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century, this Venetian painter is less known today than many of his contemporaries. In this book, Bernard Aikema...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691043957
• ISBN13: 9780691043951
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.5"