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Also Known As Giacomo da Ponte • Jacopo da Ponte
Born c.1517 • Bassano del Grappa
Died February 13, 1592 • Bassano del Grappa
Notable Works “Calvary” • “Flight into Egypt” • “Madonna with SS. Roch and Sebastian” • “Pastoral” • “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” • “Susannah and the Elders”
Movement / Style Late Renaissance • Renaissance art • Venetian school • Renaissance

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The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
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Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
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Italian painter
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
Italian painter
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo
Gentile Bellini
Italian painter
Paris Bordone
Italian painter
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto
Italian painter
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco
Spanish artist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Lorenzo Lotto: Venus and Cupid
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Italian painter
The Last Supper
Andrea del Castagno
Italian painter
Franciabigio
Italian painter
Scipione Pulzone
Italian painter
Antonio Vivarini
Italian painter
Jacopo Bellini: The Nativity
Jacopo Bellini
Italian painter
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Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
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German artist
Scorel, Jan van
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Dutch artist and engineer
Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.
François Clouet
French painter
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
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