Lazzaro Bastiani (1429 – 5 April 1512) was an Italian painter of the

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, active mainly in

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. He was born in

Padua Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...

. He is first recorded as a painter in Venice by 1460 in a payment for an altarpiece of San Samuele, for the Procuratori di San Marco. In 1462 he was paid at the same rate as

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. In 1470, he was a member of the Scuola di San Girolamo in Venice. In the 1480s he worked with

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for the

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. He painted a ''Coronation of the Virgin'' (

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); a ''Nativity'' (1477); and a ''St. Anthony on the Nut Tree''. In 1508 he was called upon, with his pupil

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, to estimate paintings of Giorgione for the

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. Lazzaro Bastiano, Madonna and Child in painted frame with 11 Spritelli, c1465, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.jpg, Maria mit dem Kind in einem bemalten Rahmen mit zwölf Spiritelli, ca. 1465, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Lazzaro Bastiani - Funeral of St Jerome - WGA1490.jpg, Beerdigung des

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, 1470–1472, Accademia, Venice St. Lucy and Kneeling Donor, by Lazzaro Bastiani, 1480-1490, oil paint on wood - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC09020.jpg,

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, 1480–1490, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA Bastiani Madonna London.jpg, Madonna and Child, ca. 1480–1490,

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, London

References

*''Grove Encyclopedia of Art'' entry
Getty museum biography
*''A Guide to the Paintings of Venice'', Karl Karoly, and Frank Tryon Charles, George bell and Sons, London, 1895, page 229. * 1429 births 1512 deaths Painters from Padua 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Venice Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub