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