Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
BACH, GIOVANNI SEBASTIANO - Chorale for organ: "Kom Gott Schöpfer Heiliger Geist" (Veni Deus Creator, Sancte Spiritus). Autograph. Berlin, State Library.
BACHIACCA — The legend of the dead king — Dresden, Picture Gallery. (photo Altman)The Deposition scenes from Bassano and the Uffizi clearly display the Umbrian characteristics that he inherited from his master, Perugino, traits which, though sometimes attenuated in other works by the prevailing manner of Andrea del Sarto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo, always form the underlying substratum of his art.
Among his best works are to be recalled the Baptism of Christ (London), the Lute Player (London, Butler collection), the Angel and Tobias (Berlin, Simon collection), and the Lute Player (Florence, Contini-Bonacossi collection).
BIBL.: M. Tinti, Il B., Florence 1922; A. Venturi, Storia dell'Arte Italiana, IX, 1, Milan 1925, pp. 453-74; I. Fraenckel, Andrea del Sarto, Strasbourg 1935, pp. 100-102; E. Salvini, Ubertini Francesco, in Thieme-Becker, XXXIII, p. 522.
Maria Donati
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“BACH, GIOVANNI SEBASTIANO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 391. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/bach-giovanni-sebastiano.
