School of Jacopo Bassano; XVIIIth century

School of JACOPO BASSANO(Bassano del Grappa, Italy, ca. 1510 - 1592); XVIII century.
"Pastoral scene".
Oil on canvas. Relined from the 19th century.
It presents restorations in the pictorial surface.
Measurements: 40,5 x 56 cm.
This type of representations of genre of allegorical type, with the representation of the different works of the different times of the year, already exists in the Middle Ages, although in the baroque it will be retaken with a new costumbrista vision, that gives priority to the values of the genre painting and leaves the allegorical character in second plane. Jacopo Bassano will be a true pioneer in this, as he was in fact a pioneer of genre painting in general. Thus, in the middle of the 16th century he painted works like the one we present here, clearly costumbrist and with a scenographic character in its composition, advancing in almost a century the genre painting of the Baroque. Bassano shows us here a wide scenery, richly described and built in several depth planes, based on a clear and open composition that allows us to visualize all the scenes represented.
Jacopo Bassano was one of the great masters of Venetian painting, son and father of painters and specialized in works, both profane and religious, full of characters and animals, of costumbrista character, announcing the creation of this genre in the following century. He was already highly esteemed in his time for his precision and taste for detail when describing characters, animals and environments. 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, and at this time his work began a stage more influenced by Raphael, which will drift towards a style closer to Parmigianino and Moretto around 1540.