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JACOPO PALMA (c. 1480-1528)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 643 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALMA (c. 1480-1528)  , See also:Italian painter of the Venetian school, was See also:born at Serinalta near See also:Bergamo, towards 1480, and died at the See also:age of See also:forty-eight in See also:July 1528 . He is currently named See also:Palma Vecchio (Old Palma) to distinguish him from Palma Giovane, his See also:grand-See also:nephew, a much inferior painter . His grandfather's name was Negretto . He is reputed to have been a See also:companion and competitor of Lorenzo See also:Lotto, and to some extent a See also:pupil of See also:Titian, after arriving in See also:Venice See also:early in the 16th See also:century; he may also have been the See also:master of Bonifazio . His earlier See also:works betray the See also:influence of the See also:Bellini; but modifying his See also:style from the study of See also:Giorgione and Titian, Palma took high See also:rank among those painters of the distinctively Venetian type who remain a little below the leading masters . For richness of See also:colour he is hardly to be surpassed; but neither in invention nor vigorous draughtsmanship does he often attain any See also:peculiar excellence . A See also:face frequently seen in his pictures is that of his (so-called) daughter Violante, of whom Titian was said to be enamoured . Two works by, Palma are more particularly celebrated . The first is a See also:composition of six paintings in the Venetian See also:church of S . Maria See also:Formosa, with St See also:Barbara in the centre, under the dead See also:Christ, and to right and See also:left SS . See also:Dominic, See also:Sebastian, See also:John Baptist and See also:Anthony . The second See also:work is in the See also:Dresden See also:Gallery, representing three sisters seated in the open See also:air; it is frequently named " The Three See also:Graces." A third See also:fine work, discovered in Venice in r9oe), is a portrait supposed to represent Violante .

Other leading examples are: the " Last Supper," in S . Maria Mater Domini; a " Madonna," in the church of S . Stefano in See also:

Vicenza; the " See also:Epiphany," in the Brera of See also:Milan; the " See also:Holy See also:Family, with a See also:young shepherd adoring," in the Louvre; " St See also:Stephen and other See also:Saints," " Christ and the Widow of Nain," and the " See also:Assumption of the Virgin," in the See also:Academy of Venice; and "Christ at See also:Emmaus," in the Pitti Gallery . The beautiful portrait of the See also:National Gallery, See also:London, with a back-ground of foliage, originally described as " See also:Ariosto•" and as by Titian, and now reascribed to that master, was for some years assumed to be an unknown poet by Palma Vecchio . It is certainly much more like the work of Titian than of Palma . In 1907 the'Staedel See also:Institute in See also:Frankfort acquired an important work by Palma Vecchio, identified by its director as an See also:illustration of See also:Ovid's second See also:Metamorphosis, and named " See also:Jupiter and Calisto." Palma's grand-nephew, Palma Giovane, was also named Jacopo (1544 to about 1626) . His works belong to the decline of Venetian See also:art . (W . M .

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