Friday, June 17, 2022

Marco Basaiti (1470-1530) - Venice in the New Century

Marco Basaiti
St George and the Dragon
before 1530
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Marco Basaiti
Calling of the Sons of Zebedee
1510
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Marco Basaiti
Calling of the Sons of Zebedee
ca. 1515
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Marco Basaiti
The Lamentation
1527
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Marco Basaiti
The Lamentation
ca. 1508
oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek, Munich


Marco Basaiti
Christ in the Garden
with St Louis of Toulouse, St Francis,
St Domenic and St Mark

ca. 1510-15
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Marco Basaiti
Portrait of a Gentleman
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence

Marco Basaiti
Portrait of a Gentleman in Black
1521
oil on panel
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Marco Basaiti
Portrait of a Gentleman
ca. 1500
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Marco Basaiti
St John the Evangelist, St Anthony Abbot
before 1530
oil on panels
(altarpiece fragments)
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Marco Basaiti
St Peter enthroned with Four Saints
before 1530
oil on canvas
Basilica di San Pietro di Castello, Venice

attributed to Marco Basaiti
Dead Christ attended by Cherubs
before 1530
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Marco Basaiti
Adam
1504
oil on panel
private collection

Marco Basaiti
St Jerome in Penitence
before 1530
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Marco Basaiti
Virgin and Child
ca. 1500
oil on panel
Lichtenstein Museum, Vienna

"Marco Basaiti had been Alvise Vivarini's pupil, but that tradition was too rigid for an artist of conservative temper to pursue very far into the new century.  Basaiti turned towards the model of Bellini, though at first still with the strong accent of Alvise's style, and thence to the manner of Carpaccio.  It was only tardily, after 1520, that he achieved a thin, limping, partial comprehension of the more modern mode, in which his chief exemplar seems to have been Catena, and to a lesser degree Palma."

– S.J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500-1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (1970)

"The name of a master not otherwise than good, likewise, in the same art and at the same time, was enjoyed by Marco Basarini [Basaiti], who, painting in Venice, where he was born from a Greek father and mother, executed in S. Francesco della Vigna a panel with a Deposition of Christ from the Cross, and another panel in the Church of S. Giobbe, representing Christ in the Garden, and below Him the three Apostles, who are sleeping, and S. Francis, S. Dominic, and two other saints; but what was most praised in this work was a landscape with many little figures wrought with good grace."

– from Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1568), translated by Gaston du C. de Vere (1912)