Portrait of Paris Bordone

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1495-1570

Italian High Renaissance Painter

Paris Bordone (1495-1570) was a Venetian painter.
He was born at Treviso, and entered the bottega of Titian. Vasari, to whom we are indebted for nearly all the facts of Bordones life (later research has not added much to our knowledge) holds that he did not spend many years with Titian and set himself to imitate the manner of Giorgione to the utmost of his power. As a matter of fact, the Glorgionesque traits in Bordone's earlier works are derived entirely from Titian, whom he imitated so closely that to this day some of his paintings pass under Titian's name. Crowe and Cavalcaselle and Dr Bode ascribe to Bordone the Baptism of Christ in the Capitoline Museums gallery, but Morelli sees in it an early work of Titian.
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 undertook works of great importance for the Fugger palace at Augsburg, which again have been lost sight of.
Bordone's pictures are of very unequal merit. They have a certain nobility of style, and that golden harmony of color which he derived from Titian, together with the realistic conception of the human Figure and the dignified character of his portraiture. On the other hand, his nudes are a little coarse in form, and the action of his figures is frequently unnatural and affected. A true child of the Renaissance, he also painted a number of religious pictures, numerous mythological scenes, allegories, nymphs, cupids and subjects from Ovids fables, but he excelled as a portraitist. His principal surviving work is the Fisherman and Doge at the Venice Academy. The National Gallery, London, has a Daphnis and Chloe and a portrait of a lady, whilst a Holy Family from his brush is at Bridgwater House. Other important works of his are the Madonna in the Tadini collection at Lovere, the paintings in the Duomo of Treviso, two mythological pictures at the Villa Borghese and the Doria palace in Rome, the Chess Players in Berlin, a very little-known portrait of superb quality in the possession of the landgrave of Hesse at Kronberg, and a Baptism of Christ in Philadelphia. Besides these, there are examples of his art in Bergamo, Milan, Genoa, Padua, Siena, Venice, Florence, Munich, Dresden and Vienna.
Beyond some references in general works on Italian painting, very little has been written on Paris Bordone since the days of Vasari. 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.

8 Paris Bordone Paintings

Portrait of Nikolaus Korbler, 1532 by Paris Bordone | Painting Reproduction

Portrait of Nikolaus Korbler 1532

Oil Painting
$1835
Canvas Print
$59.09
SKU: BPA-4013
Paris Bordone
Original Size: 100 x 78 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Austria

Portrait of a Bearded Man, 1533 by Paris Bordone | Painting Reproduction

Portrait of a Bearded Man 1533

Oil Painting
$1727
Canvas Print
$67.26
SKU: BPA-4014
Paris Bordone
Original Size: 98 x 84 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Austria

Allegory with Lovers, 1550 by Paris Bordone | Painting Reproduction

Allegory with Lovers 1550

Oil Painting
$4354
Canvas Print
$50.22
SKU: BPA-4015
Paris Bordone
Original Size: 109 x 176 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Venus, Flora, Mars and Cupid (Allegory), c.1550 by Paris Bordone | Painting Reproduction

Venus, Flora, Mars and Cupid (Allegory) c.1550

Oil Painting
$5657
Canvas Print
$63.79
SKU: BPA-4016
Paris Bordone
Original Size: 110 x 131 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Holy Family with St Catherine, c.1520/22 by Paris Bordone | Painting Reproduction

Holy Family with St Catherine c.1520/22

Oil Painting
$3858
Canvas Print
$58.26
SKU: BPA-4017
Paris Bordone
Original Size: 69 x 89 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

The Baptism of Christ, c.1535/40 by Paris Bordone | Painting Reproduction

The Baptism of Christ c.1535/40

Oil Painting
$2428
Canvas Print
$75.00
SKU: BPA-4018
Paris Bordone
Original Size: 129.5 x 132 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Rest on the flight into Egypt, c.1520/30 by Paris Bordone | Painting Reproduction

Rest on the flight into Egypt c.1520/30

Oil Painting
$1424
Canvas Print
$54.94
SKU: BPA-4019
Paris Bordone
Original Size: 49 x 68.9 cm
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom

Holy Conversation, c.1530/35 by Paris Bordone | Painting Reproduction

Holy Conversation c.1530/35

Oil Painting
$4690
Canvas Print
$56.46
SKU: BPA-19601
Paris Bordone
Original Size: 90 x 120 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

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