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Facts

Also Known As Jacopo da Ponte • Giacomo 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

Photos

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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