Paris Bordone

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Venus and Mars with Cupid by Paris Bordone, painted from 1559 to 1560, Doria Pamphilj Gallery

Paris Bordon (or Paris Paschalinus Bordone; 5 July 1500 – 19 January 1571) was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of mannerist complexity and provincial vigor.

Biography

Bordone was born at Treviso, but had moved to Venice by late adolescence. He apprenticed briefly and unhappily (according to Vasari) with Titian. Vasari may have met the elder Bordone.

From the 1520s, we have works by Bordone, including the Holy Family in Florence, Sacra Conversazione with Donor (Glasgow), and Holy Family with St. Catherine (Hermitage Museum). The St. Ambrose and a Donor (1523) is now in the Pinacoteca di Brera. In 1525–26, Bordone painted an altarpiece for the church of S. Agostino in Crema, a Madonna with St. Christopher and St George (now in the Palazzo Tadini collection at Lovere). A second altarpiece, Pentecost, is now in Brera gallery.

Time Exposes Beauty.

In 1534–35, he painted his large-scale masterpiece for the Scuola di San Marco a canvas of the The Fisherman Presenting the Ring to Doge Gradenigo (Accademia). However, comparison between this latter painting and the near-contemporary, and structurally similar, Presentation of the Virgin^[2] reveals Bordone's limitations, his use of superior perspective which creates dwarfed distant perspectives, and limited coloration relative to the brilliant tints of Titian.

Bordone is at his best^{[citation needed]} in his smaller cabinet pieces, showing half-figures, semi-undressed men and women from mythology or religious stories in a muscular interaction despite the crowded space.

Paris Bordone subsequently executed many important mural paintings in Venice, Treviso and Vicenza, all of which have perished. In 1538 he was invited to France by Francis I, at whose court he painted many portraits, though no trace of them is to be found in French collections, the two portraits at the Louvre being later acquisitions. On his return journey he also worked for the Fugger palace at Augsburg, but again the works have been lost.

Partial anthology of works

Venus and Amor, 1545-1550, imagination of an idealized beauty in the form introduced by Giorgione that once belonged to Adolf Hitler,^[1] National Museum in Warsaw

Annunciation in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
Baptism of Christ in National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Bathsheba Bathing, with an African Servant - The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Chess Players in Berlin
Daphnis and Chloe - Porczyński Gallery, Warsaw
Holy Family - Bridgewater House, Westminster
Madonna - the Tadini collection at Lovere
Mythological picture - the Galleria Borghese, Rome
Mythological picture - the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome
The paintings in the Duomo of Treviso
Perseus Armed by Mercury and Minerva - Birmingham Museum of Art
A Portrait of a Lady - The National Gallery, London
Portrait of Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio - Wawel Castle, Kraków

References

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↑ Schwarz, Birgit (2009). Geniewahn: Hitler und die Kunst. Böhlau Verlag Wien. p. 312. ISBN 32-05783-07-7. "Mehrere Gemälde aus dem Berghof befinden sich heute im Nationalmuseum in Warschau. Bordones Venus und Amor etwa (Abb. 100)"
↑ By Titian and also at Accademia

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bordone, Paris". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

Persondata
Name	Bordone, Paris
Alternative names
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1495
Place of birth	Treviso
Date of death	1570
Place of death	Venice

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