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 |