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| Pordenone Design for Fresco Decorations on External Façade of Palazzo d'Anna, Venice ca. 1535 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum |
"Our estimate of Pordenone's role in Venice in the fourth decade is obscured by the grave loss of his major fresco works, but no other painter was so much in the public eye at this time as Pordenone – not even Titian, whom he replaced for a brief moment as the sanctioned painter of the Serenissima."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
Pordenone's many frescoes on the outside walls of palaces and villas were worn away by the elements within a couple of generations. Those on the inside walls and domes of churches did not fare much better, most of them destroyed either by neglect or remodeling – and even by Allied bombing in World War II. Yet because Pordenone's style was so striking and influential in its day, a large number of reproductive prints were made while his frescoes were still visible. A sampling of these appears below.
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| Niccolò Vicentino after Pordenone Saturn holding Balances (copy of fresco façade in Venice) ca. 1550 chiaroscuro woodcut Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Andrea Andreani after Niccolò Vicentino after Pordenone Saturn holding Balances (copy of fresco façade in Venice) 1604 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Niccolò Vicentino after Pordenone Leaping Horseman - Marcus Curtius (copy of fresco façade in Venice) ca. 1530 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Nicolò Boldrini after Pordenone Leaping Horseman - Marcus Curtius (copy of fresco façade in Venice) ca. 1566 chiaroscuro woodcut British Museum |
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| Oliviero Gatti after Pordenone Judith with the Head of Holofernes (copy of church interior fresco in Piacenza) 1606 engraving British Museum |
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| Oliviero Gatti after Pordenone God the Father creating the World (copy of church interior fresco in Piacenza) 1615 engraving British Museum |
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| Oliviero Gatti after Pordenone God the Father creating Adam (copy of church interior fresco in Piacenza) 1625 engraving British Museum |
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| Oliviero Gatti after Pordenone Sacrifice of Isaac (copy of church interior fresco in Piacenza) 1625 engraving British Museum |
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| Odoardo Fialetti after Pordenone Pan (copy of fresco façade on Palazzo Tinghe in Udine) before 1638 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Odoardo Fialetti after Pordenone Mars (copy of fresco façade on Palazzo Tinghe in Udine) before 1638 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Odoardo Fialetti after Pordenone Venus (copy of fresco façade on Palazzo Tinghe in Udine) before 1638 etching Harvard Art Museums |
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| Odoardo Fialetti after Pordenone Diana (copy of fresco façade on Palazzo Tinghe in Udine) before 1638 etching British Museum |
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| Giacomo Piccini after Pordenone Expulsion of Adam and Eve (copy of cloister fresco in Venice) ca. 1656 engraving British Museum |
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| Giacomo Piccini after Pordenone Cain killing Abel (copy of cloister fresco in Venice) ca. 1656 engraving British Museum |
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| Giacomo Piccini after Pordenone David and Goliath (copy of cloister fresco in Venice) ca. 1656 engraving British Museum |
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| Giacomo Piccini after Pordenone Entombment (copy of cloister fresco in Venice) ca. 1656 engraving British Museum |