BORDES, Charles
Musician, b. at Vouvray-sur-Loire on 12 May 1863, d. at Toulon on 8 Nov. 1909. A pupil of César Franck, he was maestro di cappella at St Gervais in Paris. On a ministerial commission he studied Basque folk songs; following the success of some performances of ancient music, he founded the Association des Chanteurs de St-Gervais (1892) and then, together with Vincent d'Indy, the Schola cantorum (1894), which was to assume such importance for the education and musical culture of France. He compiled the Anthologie des maîtres religieux primitifs and the journal Tribune de St-Gervais; he wrote Du sort de la musique religieuse en France (1906) and much orchestral music.
BORDONE, Paris
Painter, b. at Treviso in 1500, d. at Venice in 1571. Trained in the workshop of Titian, he long remained under the great master’s influence, later diverging towards forms derived from Moretto, Savoldo and Pordenone. Of his numerous works there survive, above all admirable, his portraits (e.g., the Knight of the Dagger in the Liechtenstein Gallery in Vienna), his panels preserved in Venetian and Lombard churches (e.g., the Holy Family with St Jerome in S. Celso in Milan) and works of a profane character; but his highest expression is found in the Delivery of the Ring to the Doge of 1535 in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, where the natural colouristic vigour of B. seems to invest and animate both architecture and the figures. Certainly his colour is superficial, so much so that form often appears little felt; yet, among the lesser figures in the age of the great Venetian colourists, B. makes a genuine contribution to the art of his land, with a soft and harmonious charm still alive today. V. Tav. CXII.