Francesco Bassano / The Element of Water / 1576

Francesco Bassano
The Element of Water
1576 - 1577
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Creator Name: Bassano, Francesco
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian; Venetian
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1549 - 1592
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Francesco Bassano
Creator Name: Bassano, Jacopo
Creator Name-CRT: Jacopo Bassano
Title: The Element of Water
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1576
Creation End Date: 1577
Creation Date: 1576 - 1577
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.56-11/16 x W.73-5/8 in. (unframed)
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 94.45
Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Tessie Jones, by exchange and the Ethel Morrison Van Derlip and John R. Van Derlip Funds
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Style or Period: Venetian School
Context:

This nocture, or night scene, shows a fish market being set up on a riverbank at dawn. The vendors display a variety of seafood, while other activities involving water, such as laundering, ferrying, and drinking, take place nearby. Above, Neptune, god of the sea, drives his chariot across the sky.

The dramatically lit landscape with many figures and meticulously rendered still-life details represents a new type of pastoral scene devised by Jacopo Bassano and his son Francesco. The large Bassano family workshop produced several series of such landscapes--the Four Seasons, the Four Elements, the Months, and well-known biblical stories. These proved so popular that the Bassanos made replicas of them for decades. This painting of about 1576-77, in which scholars believe Francesco had the primary role, is from a suite of the Four Elements (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water). It is the earliest surviving version of a subject copied well into the 1580s.

Acquired in 1994 94.45

AMICA ID: MIA_.94.45
Component Measured: canvas dimensions
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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