Sunday, September 8, 2019

Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis (Il Pordenone) - Drawings

Pordenone
Death of St Peter Martyr
ca. 1526-28
drawing
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Pordenone
Death of St Peter Martyr
ca. 1526-28
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Pordenone
Conversion of St Paul
1530
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Pordenone
Apostles at Empty Tomb
ca. 1528-39
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

"Pordenone's percorso may be one of the most complex of its time in Italy.  Quattrocentesque provincialism and a minimal Venetian classicism preceded his contact with the energies of Roman classical style, which he exploited to make a radical eruption into novelty.  In some ways identifiably anti-classical, his style in the third decade partakes of elements of a baroque and at the same time contains an aspect that resembles Mannerism.  This style was extended and refined, and in Venice in the 1530s it was tempered to accommodation with contemporary Venetian classicism.  Still responsive, however, to Rome and to the current doctrine Rome exported, Pordenone made a further accommodation, with the contemporary style of Maniera.  Surely the variety of his career would not have been possible to an artist bound by entire loyalty to a native school."

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

Pordenone
St Roch
ca. 1525-26
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum 

Pordenone
St Sebastian
before 1539
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

attributed to Pordenone
St Catherine of Alexandria
before 1539
drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Pordenone
Adoration of the Magi
before 1539
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Pordenone
Annunciation
ca. 1537
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pordenone
Group of Seven Putti
before 1539
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Pordenone
Prophets and Sibyls
ca. 1530-32
drawing
British Museum

Pordenone
Youth with Plumed Hat
(recto)
before 1539
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Pordenone
Seated Youth
(verso of Youth with Plumed Hat)
before 1539
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Pordenone
Gods of Olympus advancing into Battle against the Titans
before 1539
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum

Pordenone
Design for a Fountain
ca. 1522-29
drawing
British Museum