"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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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."
Andrea Bayer
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Jayne Wrightsman Curator, Department of European Paintings
Jayne Wrightsman Curator, Department of European Paintings
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Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)
ca. 1590