1. Il Pordenone appears to have visited Rome, and learnt from its High Renaissance masterpieces, but lacked a good training in anatomical drawing.
13 Facts About Il Pordenone
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Il Pordenone's life was as energetic and restless as his art; he married three times, and was accused in court of hiring criminals to kill his brother to avoid sharing their inheritance.
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Il Pordenone perhaps had some influence on later works by Titian and more clearly on Tintoretto, who to some extent took over his position as the leading painter of large mural commissions in Venice.
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Titian and Pordenone were rivals in his last decade and gossip even claimed that his death was suspicious.
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Il Pordenone's name derives from being born in Pordenone in Friuli, though his family came from Corticelle.
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Il Pordenone ultimately dropped the name of de' Sacchis, having quarrelled with his brother Bartolomeo, who had wounded him in the hand.
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Il Pordenone was knighted as a cavaliere by the Hungarian King John Zapolya.
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The district about Il Pordenone had been somewhat fertile in capable painters; but Il Pordenone is the best known, a vigorous chiaroscurist and flesh painter.
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Il Pordenone excelled in portraits; he was equally at home in fresco and in oil-color.
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Il Pordenone executed many works in Pordenone and elsewhere in Friuli, Cremona, and Venice; at one time he settled in Piacenza, where one of his most celebrated church pictures, St Catherine disputing with the Doctors in Alexandria is located.
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The figure of St Roch, in the Dome of Il Pordenone is considered his own portrait.
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Il Pordenone was invited by Duke Ercole II of Ferrara to court; here soon afterwards, in 1539, he died, not without suspicion of poison committed by Titian.
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Il Pordenone appears to have been a vehement self-asserting man, to which his style as a painter corresponds.