Christmas - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2012 - 70 Euro Cent

Jacopo da Ponte, called Bassano (1510-1592), was a major Italian Renaissance painter who lived and worked in the Republic of Venice. While his father, Francesco da Ponte, was regarded more as a peasant painter, Jacopo Bassano rather oriented to his great role models Tizian and Bonifazio. The typical red in his brightly colored paintings is due to admixtures of powdered ruby ​​in the cinnabar used as a color pigment, other colors have faded over the centuries more and more, so that, for example, his painting "The Last Supper" in the 19th century was even painted over. Jacopo Bassano liked to bring animals and all sorts of utensils as well as people of the common people, some barefoot, into his pictures, but his portraits in Tintoretto's style are also of great art historical value - in short: Jacopo Bassano was certainly one of the most influential Venetian painters of the 16th century. century. His four sons, among whom Francesco and Leandro are the most famous, used to paint with him on the paintings and continued his painting style in the following century. However, numerous works were reproduced by them and later artists "in a factory-like manner", so that often the original can not really be determined. The oil painting "Adoration of the Magi" shown on the stamp was created in the years 1563/1564, has a dimension of 92.3 x 117.5 cm and is in the picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.