BORDONE, PARIS

BORDONE, PARIS. - Painter, b. at Treviso in 1500, d. at Venezia in 1571. Trained in the workshop of Tiziano, he long underwent the influence of the great master, later departing from him for forms derived from Moretto, Savoldo, and Pordenone. Of his numerous works there remain, especially admirable, the portraits (e.g., the Quarrelsome Knight in the Liechtenstein Gallery in Vienna), his panels preserved in Venetian and Lombard churches (e.g., the Holy Family with S. Girolamo in S. Celso at Milano), and paintings of a secular 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 Venezia, where B.'s natural vigor of coloring seems to invest and animate the architecture and the figures. Certainly his color is superficial, so that form often appears insufficiently felt; but, among the lesser masters of the age of the great Venetian colorists, B. made a genuine contribution to the art of his land, with a soft and harmonious charm that is still alive. - Vedi Tav. CXII.