Abstract
Jacopo dal Ponte called Jacopo Bassano belongs to the famous four painters of the Venetian 16th century together with Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. From the Renaissance and Mannerist beginnings, he developed his own unmistakable style of sacred scenes, painted in a free divided brushwork and set in a folk Italian environment.
The number of living characters in the day and night landscape of his paintings inspired not only his sons, especially Francesco and Leandro, but also impressed the realistic note of the Baroque. Jacopo Bassano remained throughout his life in his hometown of Bassano del Grappa in the foothills of the Alps in an extensive workshop whose work was in demand throughout Europe.