- Lazzaro Bastiani
Lazzaro Bastiani (working 1449 [Recorded as witness to the will of his brother Marco, 5 April 1449.] – 1512) was an Italian painter of the
Renaissance , active mainly inVenice .He was born in
Padua . 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 asGiovanni Bellini In 1470, he was a member of the Scuola di San Girolamo in Venice. In the 1480s he worked withGentile Bellini for theScuola Grande di San Marco . He painted a "Coronation of the Virgin" (Accademia ); a "Nativity" (1477); and a "St. Anthony on the Nut Tree".In 1508 he was called upon, with his pupilVittore Carpaccio , to estimate paintings of Giorgione for theFondaco dei Tedeschi .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.
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