Marcantonio Bassetti ( Italian. Marcantonio Bassetti ; 1586, Verona , Republic of Venice - 1630, ibid.) - Italian painter , painted in the style of Mannerism and Caravaggism .
| Marcantonio Bassetti | |
|---|---|
| ital Marcantonio bassetti | |
| Date of Birth | 1586 |
| Place of Birth | Verona , Venetian Republic |
| Date of death | 1630 |
| Place of death | Verona , Venetian Republic |
| Allegiance |  Venetian Republic |
| Genre | painting |
| Study | workshop Felice Bruzazordzi |
| Style | mannerism |
Biography
Born in 1586 in Verona. He studied painting in the workshop of Felice Bruzazordzi to the death of a teacher in 1605. According to the artist and writer Carlo Ridolfi, in the same 1605, Bassetti moved to Venice, where his work was influenced by paintings by Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, Jacopo Bassano, Leandro Bassano and, especially, Tintoretto, whose paintings he repeatedly quoted in his canvases.
In 1615, the artist moved to Rome, where, together with Alessandro Turchi, he worked on the orders of Cardinal Shipione Borghese. While working on the interiors of the church of Santa Maria del Anima and the royal hall of the Quirinal Palace, they were joined by another artist, Carlo Saraceni. Interested in naturalism in Venice, following the patterns of Bassano, Bassetti deepened his knowledge of this area in Rome, studying the works of Caravaggio and Orazio Gentileschi, whose works he repeatedly reproduced in copies, one of which was Doubt of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, commissioned by the Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani, now in the collection of the Museum of Castelvecchio in Verona. In the same museum is stored his drawing with the image of the saints of Martha and Mary according to Gentileschi.
Around 1619, Bassetti returned to Verona. He began to receive orders from the monasteries and residents of the suburbs, for whom he painted monumental canvases and small paintings on the local assay stone. In the same period, the artist created a number of portraits of various characters, which are now included in the collections of museums and private collections. In the Museum of Castelvecchio in Verona are stored several paintings from this series - portraits of “The Man with the Glove” and “The Man with the Book”. In the early 1620s, Bassetti wrote one of his best canvases, The Assumption for the Monastery of Geisenfeld in Bavaria.
In the last years of his life, he paid more and more attention to small-scale works. Bassetti died in his hometown in 1630, like other local artists Pasquale Ottino and Santo Crear, during the plague epidemic. He contracted while caring for the sick. His biography is contained in The Lives of Carlo Ridolfi, who in 1628 visited Verona and had several conversations with the painter.
Links
- Ivanoff N. Bassetti, Marcantonio . www.treccani.it . - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 7 (1970). The date of circulation is July 17, 2017. (ital.)
- Marcantonio Bassetti Unc . www.verona.com . - Personaggi di Verona. The date of circulation is July 17, 2017. (ital.)