Jacopo Bassano Circle

Circle of JACOPO BASSANO(Bassano del Grappa, Italy, ca. 1510 - 1592).
"The summer".
Oil on canvas. Relined.
It has a frame of the eighteenth century.
Measurements: 48 x 67 cm; 54 x 74,5 cm (frame).
In this work, the artist is inspired by the work of Jacopo Bassano's summer, where he presents us a costumbrista scene of great narrative, meticulously described, as an allegory of the summer. This type of allegorical genre representations, with the representation of the different works of the different seasons of the year, already existed in the Middle Ages, although in the Baroque period it was taken up again with a new costumbrista vision, which prioritized the values of genre painting and left the allegorical character in the background. 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 such as 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.