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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.

Paris Bordone

Paintings

Venetian Lovers

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 have 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 [1], 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.
Time Exposes Beauty.

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[2].

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

* Daphnis and Chloe - The National Gallery, London
* A Portrait of a Lady - The National Gallery, London
* Holy Family - Bridgewater House, Westminster
* Bathsheba Bathing, with an African Servant - The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
* Madonna - the Tadini collection at Lovere
* The paintings in the Duomo of Treviso
* Mythological picture - the Galleria Borghese in Rome
* Mythological picture - the Doria palace in Rome
* Chess Players in Berlin
* Portrait - landgrave of Hesse at Kronberg (very little-known but of superb quality)
* Baptism of Christ in Philadelphia

 

References

1. ^ By Titian and also at Accademia
2. ^ again have been lost

* Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Bordone, Paris". Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.
* This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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