How Bassano's age and death change our understanding of his unfinished painting

"I think his age liberated him and that he was working on it for himself."

Curator Andrea Bayer on The Baptism of Christ, painted by Jacopo Bassano when he was 80 years old and left unfinished when he died.

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Photography by Bruce J. Schwarz

Infrared and X-radiograph images courtesy of Michael Gallagher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center

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