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IL See also:PORDENONE (1483-1539)
, an eminent painter of the Venetian school, whose correct name was Giovanni See also:Antonio Licinio, or Licino
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He was commonly named Il See also:Pordenone from having been See also:born in 1483 at Corticelli, a See also:village near Pordenone (q.v.) in See also:Italy
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He ultimately dropped the name of Licinio, having quarrelled with his See also:brothers, one of whom had wounded him in the See also:hand; he then called himself Regillo, or De Regillo
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His See also:signature runs " See also:Antonius Portunaensis," or " De Portunaonis." He was created a See also:cavaliere by See also: His latest works are comparatively careless and superficial; and generally he is better in male figures than in See also:female—the latter being somewhat too sturdy—and the See also:composition of his subject-pictures is scarcely on a level with their other merits . Pordenone appears to have been a vehement self-asserting See also:man, to which his style as a painter corresponds, and his morals were not unexceptionable . Three of his See also:principal scholars were Bernardino Licinio, named Il Sacchiense, his son-in-See also:law Pomponio See also:Amalteo, and Giovanni Maria Calderari . The following may be named among Pordenone's works: the picture of " S See also:Luigi See also:Giustiniani and other See also:Saints," originally in S Maria dell' Orto, Venice; a " Madonna and Saints " (both of these in the Venice See also:academy); the " Woman taken in See also:Adultery," in the See also:Berlin museum; the " See also:Annunciation," at See also:Udine, regarded by See also:Vasari as the artist's masterpiece, now damaged by restoration . In See also:Hampton Court is a duplicate See also:work, the " Painter and his See also:Family "; and in See also:Burghley See also:House are two See also:fine pictures now assigned to Pordenone—the " Finding of See also:Moses " and the " See also:Adoration of the See also:Kings." These used to be attributed to Titian and to See also:Bassano respectively . |
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