LAZZARO BASTIANI

NAMES OF THE MEMBERS: JOSÉ MURILLO / MILAGROS ACOSTA / KRISHNA QUEZADA

COURSE: 1M-B
TEACHER'S NAME: KATIA PÉREZ
HE WAS BORN IN PADUA, CITY WHERE HIS ACTIVITY AS A PAINTER IS
DOCUMENTED IN 1449. ALREADY IN 1460 WE FOUND HIM WORKING IN VENICE,
SPECIFICALLY IN THE CHURCH OF SAN SAMUELE. IN 1470 HE BECAME A MEMBER
OF THE SCUOLA DI SAN GIROLAMO, FOR WHICH HE PAINTED SOME WORKS
NOW PRESERVED IN THE ACADEMY OF VENICE. AROUND 1480 HE WORKED
ALONGSIDE GENTILE BELLINI IN THE DECORATION OF THE SCUOLA GRANDE DI
SAN MARCO. ALSO MADE (1494) ONE OF THE TELERI DESTINED TO DECORATE THE
SCUOLA GRANDE DI SAN GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA, THUS PARTICIPATING IN ONE
OF THE ORDERS OF PRESTIGE OF THE TIME.
• It seems that it was formed like artist in the workshop of Antonio Vivarini,
although it is evident the influence of Andrea of Castagno in its first style, that
comprises a series of works realized of the decade of the sixties. Bastiani
pays great attention to design and perspective with a taste for detail: the
signed mosaic of St. Sergius in St. Mark's of Venice, the Archangel Gabriel of
the Civic Museum of Padua or the Pietà of the Venetian church of St. Antoninus
would be good examples of this period.
• In 1508 it was next to Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Carpaccio in charge of assessing
the value of the work that Giorgione had made al fresco in the Fondaco dei
Tedeschi.
• Bastiani is aligned in the most conservative faction of the Venetian School of
painting, being part of a nucleus of artists attached to the traditional fourteenth
style, whose most outstanding figure was the older of the Bellini brothers, Gentile.
Among his students are artists who would maintain this spirit of immobile character
and little open to new trends: Carpaccio, Benedetto Diana and Pietro degli
Ingannati.
PAINTINGS OF LAZZARO BASTIANI