Artibus et Historiae no. 55 (XXVIII)
2007, ISSN 0391-9064Up
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FRANCO BERNABEI - The Bassano by Sergio Bettini
The purpose of this essay is to reconstruct an aspect of Jacopo Bassano's critical fortune. Bassano is a painter whom Roger Rearick has studied all his life, with great dedication and remarkable success. During the 1930s Bassano was the object of important studies in Italy, among which excels a book written by Sergio Bettini, which is the focus of the present essay.
Bettini's work helps us not only to reconstruct Bassano's personality, but also to highlight the relationship between artistic personality and historical background - a prominent concern in the idealistic and formalistic debates of the time. This essay also takes into account the role of Venetian painting, as its specific colouristic qualities - albeit differently expressed by its various representatives - were instrumental in the development of Italian and European painting. This issue became vital in the 1930s and was probed in light of a better definition of the relationship between national tradition and modernity, the avant-garde and the return to order.
