The Way to Calvary by Jacopo Bassano

Jacopo Bassano

1510 - 1592

Venice, Italy

Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510 – 14 February 1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco the Elder, and studying under Bonifazio Veronese in Venice, he painted mostly religious paintings including landscape and genre scenes.[3] He often treated biblical themes in the manner of rural genre scenes, portraying people who look like local peasants and depicting animals with real interest.[4] Bassano's pictures were very popular in Venice because o...