# BASSANO, Leandro [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1557–1622 - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Italian painter, one of the four sons of Jacopo Bassano. He worked in the Venetian studio of the family under Francesco, his elder brother who ran the Venetian branch of the workshop. Francesco committed suicide a few months after his father's death, then Leandro took over the workshop. He was the chief portrait painter of the family, and his portraits are closely allied to those of Tintoretto. Leandro both acquired some distinction and popularity working in Venice, he was knighted by the Doge in 1595 or 1596 \(thereafter he sometimes added 'Eques' to his signature\). ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Dives and Lazarus \(detail\)]() - [Dives and Lazarus]() - [Doge Marcantonio Memmo]() - [Honorius III Approving the Rule of St Dominic in 1216]() - [Little Girl Carrying a Basket]() - [Moses Striking the Rock]() - [Penelope]() - [Portrait of a Widow at her Devotions]() - [Portrait of an Old Man]() - [Portrait of Tiziano Aspetti holding a statuette]() - [Small Market \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()