Palma Vecchio

Jacopo Palma ( * 1480 in Serina Alta, today Serina at Bergamo; † late July or early August 1528 in Venice) called, often Jacopo Palma Il Vecchio ( " the old man " ), was a top Italian painter.

Life and work

About life Palmas Reliable little is known. However, results from his works, are obtained from those over fifty, that he trained in Venice under the influence of Giovanni Bellini, Cima da Congeliano and carpaccio that he later transformed his style by his peers Titian and Giorgione, and finally in the last period of his work to full painterly freedom and independence developed.

With Titian and Giorgione, it denotes the culmination of Venetian painting during its heyday. He painted altarpieces and religious paintings for palaces and family chapels, which are usually the Madonna with the Child and several saints, sometimes with the founders in quiet get-together ( called Sacra Conversazione, holy Entertainment ) also portraits, single figures and heads study.

His main work, also one of the most perfect and greatest creations of painting at all, is the painted around 1515 Saint Barbara (Venice, Santa Maria Formosa ). In his first period include the Madonna and Child ( Berlin Museum ), the Madonna with saints and angels playing in Zermann at Treviso and St. Peter with Six Saints (Venice, Academy ).

For the second period include the Saint Barbara, Adam and Eve (Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum ), Christ and the adulteress (Rome, Capitoline Hill ), Visitation ( Vienna, Imperial Gallery ), the Adoration of the Shepherds ( Louvre, Paris ), the Madonna with St. Peter (Rome, Palazzo Colonna ), the Madonna under the tree with four saints ( Vienna, Imperial Gallery ) and the Holy Family with St. Jerome and Catherine ( Naples Museum )

The last period are the Madonna with the Holy Lucia and George ( Vicenza, San Stefano ), assigned the Adoration of the Magi (Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera ) and Jacob and Rachel ( Dresden Gallery ).

Most of his portraits and single figures possess the imperial gallery at Vienna ( including the so-called Violante and Lucrezia ), the Dresden Gallery ( a dormant Venus and the Three Sisters ), Palazzo Sciarra in Rome (under the name " la bella il Tiziano " ) and the Berlin Museum.

Palma was the one painter who knew how to describe the Venetian woman beauty most brilliantly, especially in his last period in which he had blurred the local colors in soft light.

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