Bassano

Bassano, family of Venetian painters active in the 16th- and early 17th-centuries. The most important member, Jacopo da Ponte, called Jacopo Bassano, born in Bassano del Grappa about 1510, painted portraits and biblical and mythological scenes. His early Mannerist works are characterized by elongated figures and brilliant colour. Later work, influenced by Titian and Tintoretto, was darker and more dramatic, as in the Crucifixion (1592, Museo Civico, Treviso). His sons Francesco, Gerolamo, Giovanni Battista, and Leandro were genre painters.