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(1515), Vienna Museum; Pietà, Altar in Four Panels, St. Sebastian, Berlin Museum; St. Jerome Reading, National Gallery, London.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 259; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 88; Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 646; Lermolieff, 14, 399; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 550.

BASILETTI, LUIGI, born at Brescia, Italy, in 1780, died in 1860. History and landscape painter, pupil of Santo Cattaneo, then studied in Bologna and in Rome, where he painted Canova's portrait. Works: Guardian Angel with Boy, Duomo nuovo, Brescia; Death of the Niobeds, Temple of Sibyl at Tivoli, Isle of Ischia, and others, Tosi Gallery, ib.; Falls of Tivoli, Brera, Milan.—Fenaroli, Artisti Bresciani; Meyer, Künst. Lex., iii. 98.

BASSANO, FRANCESCO, born at Bassano in 1550, died in Venice, July 4, 1591. Venetian school; real name Francesco da Ponte; eldest son and pupil of Jacopo Bassano. Established himself at Venice; employed in decorating the Palazzo Ducale, where he painted the Siege of Padua and five other pictures. He also executed for churches large works which were deservedly admired. Became melancholy and killed himself by jumping from a window. Works: Ascension, S. Luigi de' Francesi, Rome; Fish Market, Louvre; Flight into Egypt and Adoration of Magi, Duomo, Padua; Martyrdom of St. Catherine, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Rape of Sabines, Turin Gallery; Adoration of Shepherds and Christ Clearing Temple, Dresden Museum; Christ at Bethany, Cassel Gallery; Adoration of Magi, Last Supper, Madrid Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Burckhardt, 750; Wornum, Epochs, 259.

BASSANO, JACOPO, called the elder, born at Bassano, 1510, died there, Feb. 13, 1592. Venetian school; real name Jacopo da Ponte; son and pupil of Francesco da Ponte the elder; afterward pupil of Bonifazio Veneziano, and later, it is said, of Titian. Bassano was perhaps the earliest of Italian genre painters. He excelled in painting landscape and animals, and chose his subjects from Scripture scenes in which they could suitably be introduced. He also painted market scenes, farmyards, and other agricultural subjects, as well as historical pictures, altarpieces, and portraits. He had four sons and many scholars who worked with him in his studio, and enabled him to multiply his pictures. Among his best works are: Entombment of Christ (1574), S. Maria in Vanzo, Padua; Adoration of the Shepherds, Louvre; Nativity, S. Giuseppe, and Baptism of St. Lucilla, S. Valentino, Bassano; Return of Jacob to Canaan, Palazzo Ducale, Venice; St. Roch Interceding for the Plague-Stricken, S. Rocco, Piacenza; Raising of Lazarus, Naples Museum; Moses and the Burning Bush, and Bassano's Family, Uffizi, Florence; Christ Clearing the Temple (replica in National Gallery, London), Animals Entering Ark, Noah Leaving Ark, Madrid Museum; Good Samaritan, National Gallery, London.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xiii. 42; Seguier, 153, 713; Burckhardt, 750.

BASSANO, LEANDRO, Cavaliere, born at Bassano in 1558, died in Venice in 1623. Venetian school; real name Leandro da Ponte, third son and pupil of Jacopo Bassano. Painted for some time in his father's style, but some of his portraits having brought him fame at Venice, he confined himself afterward almost entirely to portraiture.