Paris Bordone

Paris Bordone (1500–1571) was a painter of the Venetian Renaissance, born in Treviso and settled in Venice by his late teens. Vasari records a brief and unhappy apprenticeship with Titian, though Bordone kept a Mannerist complexity of his own. He painted murals in Venice, Treviso and Vicenza, all since lost, and in 1538 he was invited to France by Francis I, at whose court he painted portraits; on the way home he also worked for the Fugger palace at Augsburg. His major large-scale work is The Fisherman Presenting the Ring to Doge Gradenigo, painted in 1534–35 for the Scuola di San Marco and now in the Accademia in Venice. He also made smaller cabinet pictures of half-length figures from mythology and scripture, and often combined portraiture with allegory. Here: Christ as 'The Light of the World'.