Even though he worked in a small town, Jacopo Bassano was one of the Veneto's most influential painters in the mid-1500s. A pioneer in genre scenes and landscape painting, Jacopo initially trained with his father in the town of Bassano. By 1534 he had found his direction in the art of nearby Venice, learning as much from the chiaroscuro and luxurious color of Titian's works as from his teachers. H
