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Pordenone, pseudonym of Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis, was born in Pordenone in 1483 and died in Ferrara on 14 January 1539. He was an Italian painter of great fame, whose artistic style was influenced by the great Roman manner of Raphael and Michelangelo, so as from the example of Andrea Mantegna. Read the full biography

Pordenone, pseudonym of Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis, was born in Pordenone in 1483 and died in Ferrara on 14 January 1539. He was an Italian painter of great fame, whose artistic style was influenced by the great Roman manner of Raphael and Michelangelo, so as from the example of Andrea Mantegna. His work was characterized by grandiloquent tones and an original balance between classical references and narrative quotations of a popular nature. Consequently, he is considered the main representative of Friulian Renaissance painting. According to Vasari, Pordenone was formed under the influence of Giorgione, however, for Ridolfi under Pellegrino da San Daniele. In 1528, in Venice, he took part in a competition to create the altarpiece of San Pietro Martire for the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. However, he was defeated by Titian, ending up being marginalized from the artistic panorama.
Pordenone died in Ferrara in 1539 under mysterious circumstances, while he was in the city to provide designs for tapestries commissioned by Ercole II d'Este.