Giovanni Antonio De Sacchis

Place: Pordenone

Death: 1539

Biography:

Pordenone, also known as Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis, was an Italian Mannerist painter, loosely of the Venetian school. He was born in Pordenone, Italy around 1484 and died in Ferrara, Italy in 1539. He painted in several cities in northern Italy with speed, vigor, and deliberate coarseness of expression and execution, intended to shock. He visited Rome and learned from its High Renaissance masterpieces, but lacked a good training in anatomical drawing. He was known for his energetic and restless life, marrying three times and being accused of hiring criminals to kill his brother to avoid sharing their inheritance. He had some influence on later works by Titian and more clearly on Tintoretto, who took over his position as the leading painter of large mural commissions in Venice.