Sunday, September 8, 2019

Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis (Il Pordenone) - ca. 1484-1539

Pordenone
St Prosdocimus and St Peter
ca. 1515-17
oil on panel
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Pordenone
Portrait of a Musician
ca. 1515-20
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Pordenone
Transfiguration
1518
tempera on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Pordenone
St Peter in Niche
1520
fresco
Duomo di Treviso

Pordenone
Pilate washing his Hands (detail)
1520-21
fresco
Duomo di Cremona

Pordenone
Pilate washing his Hands (detail)
1520-21
fresco
Duomo di Cremona

"Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis, called Il Pordenone, was an artist whose genius was far less than Correggio's, but his power of invention was almost comparable and the motives that inspired it were similar.  The influence of Pordenone's inventions was not as enduring as Correggio's, but within the span of Pordenone's own activity it was vast, and geographically more widespread.  Pordenone's inventions were clamorous in their novelty and more obvious in their effect.  Of a provincial origin much more isolated and retardataire than Correggio's, in the Friuli, north-east of Venice, the climate of his earliest artistic education was not one to impose a discipline of form or of expressive manners.  Even after close experience of Venice and a knowledge of the classical style of Rome, Pordenone's conception of the function of art for long remained provincial and popular, not only daring vulgarity but at times evidently willing it."

– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)

Pordenone
Noli me tangere
1524
oil on panel
Museo Cristiano del Duomo di Cividale del Friuli

Pordenone
Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints
ca. 1525
oil on canvas
Chiesa Parrocchiale di Susegana

Pordenone
St Martin and St Christopher
ca. 1528-29
oil on panels
(originally the doors of a cabinet)
Chiesa di San Rocco, Venice

Pordenone
God the Father with Angels
ca. 1529-30
fresco
Chiesa dei Francescani, Cortemaggiore

Pordenone
Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani Altarpiece
(with St Louis of Toulouse, St Francis of Assisi,
St Bernard, St John the Baptist, and two Monks)
1532
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Pordenone
Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani Altarpiece
(anonymous copy of St John the Baptist figure)
16th century
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Pordenone
Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani Altarpiece
(detail of St John the Baptist figure)
1532
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Pordenone
Blessed Lorenzo Giustiniani Altarpiece
(reproduction by C. Coen e Figlio, Venice)
ca. 1870-1900
cabinet photograph
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Pordenone
St Mark
ca. 1535
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Pordenone
Raising of Lazarus
before 1539
oil on canvas
Prague Castle Picture Gallery, Czech Republic