“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 around 1590 when he was 80 years old and left unfinished when he died.
Unfinished
Andrea Bayer
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Contributors
Andrea Bayer
Jayne Wrightsman Curator, Department of European Paintings
Jayne Wrightsman Curator, Department of European Paintings
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
Art Mentioned
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)
ca. 1590
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