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Paris Bordon or
Bordone (
1495 –
January 19 1570), was a
Venetian painter of the
Renaissance, who while training with
Titian, maintained a strand of
mannerist complexity and provincial vigor.
Biography
Bordone was born at
Treviso, but had moved to Venice by late adolescence. He apprenticed briefly and unhappily (according to
Vasari) with
Titian.
Vasari may have met the elder Bordone.
From the 1520s, we've works by Bordone including the
Holy Family in Florence,
Sacra Conversazione with Donor (Glasgow), and
Holy Family with St. Catherine (Hermitage Museum). The St. Ambrose and a Donor (1523) is now in Brera. In 1525-6, Bordone painted an altarpiece for the church of S. Agostino in
Crema, a
Madonna with St. Christopher and St George (now in the
Palazzo Tadini collection at
Lovere). A second altarpiece,
Pentecost, is now in Brera gallery.
In 1534-5, he painted his large-scale masterpiece for the
Scuola di San Marco a canvas of the
Fisherman delivering the Marriage Ring of Venice to the Doge (Accademia). However, when this latter painting is compared to the near-contemoporary, and structurally similar,
Presentation of the Virgin, Bordone's limitations, his use of superior perspective, which creates dwarfed distant perspectives, and limited coloration relative to the brilliant tints of Titian.
Bordone is best at his smaller cabinet pieces, showing half-figures, semi-undressed men and women from mythology or religious stories in a muscular interaction despite the crowded space.
Paris Bordone subsequently executed many important mural paintings in Venice, Treviso and
Vicenza, all of which have perished. In 1538 he was invited to France by
Francis I, at whose court he painted many portraits, though no trace of them is to be found in French collections, the two portraits at the
Louvre being later acquisitions. On his return journey he also worked for the
Fugger palace at
Augsburg.
Bordone's pictures are of unequal merit, and often repeat postures, including the drape an overarching arm over the superior portion of the canvas. In 1900 the committee of the fourth centenary of Paris Bordone, Treviso, published L. Barb and G. Biscaros
Della Vita e delle Opere di Paris Bordone; and the
Nuova Antologia (November, 16, 1900) contains a sixteen-page paper on Paris Bordone by
P. G. Molmenti.
Partial anthology of works
The
National Gallery,
London, has a
Daphnis and Chloe and a portrait of a lady, whilst a
Holy Family from his brush is at
Bridgwater House. Other important works of his are the
Madonna in the
Tadini collection at
Lovere, the paintings in the
Duomo of Treviso, two mythological pictures at the
Galleria Borghese and the
Doria palace in
Rome, the
Chess Players in
Berlin, a very little-known portrait of superb quality in the possession of the
landgrave of Hesse at
Kronberg, and a
Baptism of Christ in
Philadelphia.
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