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| Paris Bordone Abduction of Proserpine before 1571 oil on canvas Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse |
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| Paris Bordone Apparition of the Sybil to Caesar Augustus ca. 1550 oil on canvas Pushkin Museum, Moscow |
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| Paris Bordone Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1550 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Paris Bordone Woman in a Green Mantle ca. 1550 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Paris Bordone Battle of Gladiators ca. 1560 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Paris Bordone Pair of Lovers ca. 1555-60 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
"Bordone was Trevisan by origin, born there in 1500. We hear of him in Venice for the first time in 1518, when he is described as a painter, but most of his youth seems to have been spent in Venice, and he received his education as a painter there. He was for a while a pupil of Titian, but an unhappy one; Vasari seems to have heard directly from Paris, in his old age, accounts of Titian's disagreeable behaviour towards him. Paris seems to have been nearly as precocious as his master: at the age of eighteen he received a first commission, which Titian promptly took away. . . . Most probably in 1538 he undertook a voyage to France, and was resident there for a time, at Fontainebleau. There, in the company of Rosso and Primaticcio, he was exposed in full measure to novelties of style to which his interests and native temper sympathetically disposed him. In this farthest but extremely advanced outpost of Central Italian Mannerism, Paris acquired ideas that so far had not been in his experience: of classicist purity of modelled form, of rhythmic grazia, and of expressive artifice. After his return from France Bordone's art took on a new character, an often difficult compound of Venice, Lombardy, and Central Italy – a parallel to the most advanced situation which in the same years matured on the Venetian scene, but of which, in Bordone, the elements were never quite synthetically fused."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Paris Bordone Mars, Venus and Cupid before 1571 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Paris Bordone Venus and Cupid ca. 1550-55 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Paris Bordone Venetian Women at their Toilette ca. 1545 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Paris Bordone Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1545 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Paris Bordone Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1543-50 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Paris Bordone Allegory of Victory crowning Mars and Venus, with Cupid attending ca. 1560 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Paris Bordone Allegory with Mars, Venus, Flora and Cupid ca. 1560 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Paris Bordone Young Man drying himself at a Fountain (fragment of a larger work) ca. 1530-40 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |