Jacopo Bassano, Regionalism, and Rural Painting
2018; Oxford University Press; Volume: 41; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/oxartj/kcy010
ISSN1741-7287
Autores Tópico(s)Art History and Market Analysis
ResumoThe paintings of Jacopo Bassano (c.1510–92) have long been understood as a reflection of the fact that he was born, worked, and died in the small market town of Bassano del Grappa in the Veneto region of northeast Italy.1 Many feature strikingly naturalistic depictions of peasants and farmyard animals, apparently based closely on the appearances of agrarian life in the Bassano area. But despite the provincial look of such works, Bassano often drew on formal and literary sources derived from the mainstream of culture in later sixteenth-century Italy. Those of his works featuring details of local life were typically made for export to patrons and collectors at some remove from the immediate contingences of peasant life in the countryside around Bassano del Grappa. While such homely productions appear to depict the intimate world of some pre-modern communitarian Gemeinschaft, they are better understood as knowing late Renaissance productions that stage the idea of the simplicities of agrarian life for the enjoyment of a wide constituency of sophisticated outsiders. Despite its appearance of cultural specificity, Bassano’s painting of rural life was founded on generic and translatable values, and can be taken as a marker of the emergent social Gesellschaft of modernity.2
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