Jacopo Bassano and His Public Moralizing Pictures in a Age of Reform, Ca. 1535-1600

List of Illustrations Preface 1 Introduction 3 2 The Early Work 7 Heresy and Orthodoxy in Cittadella 7 The Flight into Egypt as a Metaphor of Life's Pilgrimage 14 The Mirror of the Wicked World 26 The Trinity at Angarano 31 The Madonna of Asolo 34 The Selfishness of Herod and His Ilk 40 Two Hunting Dogs for a Polymath 42 The Caritas of the Samaritan 47 Lazarus and Poor Relief 49 The Wicked Shepherd of the Adoration 52 Altarpieces in the Contada 54 Naturalism, Northern Art, and Spirituality 58 3 The Later Work 74 Another Wicked Shepherd and an Anti-Erasmian Parable 74 Two Venetian Altarpieces 80 The "Bassano Factory" and the Adoration of the Shepherds 82 Journeys from the Old Testament 84 Journeys in Pairs and a Picture with No Subject 91 Jude and Tamar 97 The Flood and the Plague 98 The Moral of the Gospel 105 The Primacy of the Vita Mista 109 Unusual Altarpieces on the Terraferma 115 Susanna's Virtue 126 Seasons, Elements, Months, and Markets 131 Late Altarpieces and the Effect from a Distance 147 A New Pictorial Language 151 4 Jacopo Bassano in Perspective 159 Notes 175 Bibliography 209 Index 241Aikema, Bernard is the author of 'Jacopo Bassano and His Public Moralizing Pictures in a Age of Reform, Ca. 1535-1600' with ISBN 9780691043951 and ISBN 0691043957.