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Il Pordenone, byname of Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis (c. 1484–1539), was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, active during the Renaissance. Vasari, his main biographer, wrongly identifies him as Giovanni Antonio Licinio. ==Biography== His name derives from being born in Pordenone, even if his family came from Corticelle (Brescia, Lombardy). He ultimately dropped the name of de’ Sacchis, having quarrelled with his brother Bartolomeo, who had wounded him in the hand. He then called himself Regillo, or De Regillo. His signature runs ''Antonius Portusnaonensis'', or ''De Portunaonis''. He was knighted as a ''cavaliere'' by the king of Hungary John Zápolya. As a painter, Pordenone was a scholar of Pellegrino da San Daniele, but a leading influence of his style was Giorgione; the popular story that he was a fellow-pupil with Titian under Giovanni Bellini is false. It was claimed that Pordenone’s first commission was given him by a grocer in his home town, to try his boast that he could paint a picture as the priest commenced High Mass, and complete it by the time Mass was over; he completed the picture in the required time.〔Carlo Ridolfi quoted in 〕 The district about Pordenone had been somewhat fertile in capable painters; but Pordenone is the best known, a vigorous ''chiaroscurist'' and flesh painter. The 1911 ''Britannica'' states that "so far as mere flesh-painting is concerned he was barely inferior to Titian in breadth, pulpiness and tone". The two were rivals for a time, and Giovanni Antonio would sometimes affect to wear arms while he was painting. He excelled in portraits; he was equally at home in fresco and in oil-color. He executed many works in Pordenone and elsewhere in Friuli, Cremona, and Venice; at one time he settled in Piacenza, where one of his most celebrated church pictures, ''St. Catherine disputing with the Doctors in Alexandria'' is located. The figure of St. Roch, in the Dome of Pordenone is considered his own portrait. He was invited by Duke Ercole II of Ferrara to court; here soon afterwards, in 1539, he died, not without suspicion of poison committed by Titian. His later works are comparatively careless and superficial; and generally he is better in male figures than in female-the latter being somewhat too sturdy-and the composition of his subject-pictures is scarcely on a level with their other merits. Pordenone appears to have been a vehement self-asserting man, to which his style as a painter corresponds. Three of his principal pupils were Bernardino Licinio, named ''Il Sacchiense'', his son-in-law Pomponio Amalteo, and Giovanni Maria Calderari. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Il Pordenone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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