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Dish with a Landscape

Jacopo da Pesaro Italian

ca. 1545–50

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 503

This is one of the grandest examples known today of a dish with a landscape scene rendered in blue-tinted glaze (berettino) and monochrome blue decoration. Painters and printmakers in sixteenth-century Venice established the landscape as an independent genre, and the subject was soon adopted in potteries. At the same time a taste developed for berettino wares, which were produced in several centers across Italy. The monochrome palette focuses attention on the painter’s ability to represent space, light and shadow. These effects are masterfully on display here, as the entire surface of the large dish supports the painted scene. The painter allowed himself particularly expressive flourishes of brushwork to render the plants in the foreground on the rim.

Dish with a Landscape, Jacopo da Pesaro (Italian, active Venice, 1507–ca. 1550), Tin-glazed earthenware painted with dark blue and white highlights on light blue berettino ground, Italian, Venice — Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Dish with a Landscape, Jacopo da Pesaro (Italian, active Venice, 1507–ca. 1550), Tin-glazed earthenware painted with dark blue and white highlights on light blue berettino ground, Italian, Venice

Dish with a Landscape, Jacopo da Pesaro (Italian, active Venice, 1507–ca. 1550), Tin-glazed earthenware painted with dark blue and white highlights on light blue berettino ground, Italian, Venice

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Title: Dish with a Landscape

Maker: Jacopo da Pesaro (Italian, active Venice, 1507–ca. 1550)

Date: ca. 1545–50

Culture: Italian, Venice

Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware painted with dark blue and white highlights on light blue berettino ground

Dimensions: Overall (irregular height, confirmed): 2 1/4 × 18 × 18 in. (5.7 × 45.7 × 45.7 cm)

Classification: Ceramics-Pottery

Credit Line: Johnston Fund, 2017

Accession Number: 2017.129

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