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)