Paris Bordone, an artist who left Titian’s studio and experienced the influence of Giorgione and Lorenzo Lotto at different times, worked for a long time in France at the court of King Francis I. But most of the work was done by him in Venice and other cities of Northern Italy. His art is very colorful and unusual compositions.
“Presentation of the ring dozhu” – one of the few preserved historical monumental paintings Bordon. It illustrates the last episode of the legend of the fisherman, who had a vision of the long battle of Saints Mark, George and Theodore, the patrons of Venice, with sea monsters floating on the city from the island of Lido. After the victory, Saint Mark addressed the fisherman with a speech that he would defend his city in the future, and as a token of proof he asked his father Bartolomeo Gradenigo to give his ring.
The viewer witnesses this moment. The composition takes place against the backdrop of a magnificent scenographic and architectural perspective. The aspiration of the view deep into the canvas is restrained by the diagonal made up of just a few of their figures, vector-directed to the doge sitting on the throne elevation of the “public loggia”. It starts with a figure in a turban. Her bluish tinge of fabric strangely rhymes with the dress of the doge, as well as light gold, a ceremonial dressing gown – with a cape and cap of the “first Venetian”.
This amazing colorful roll call, perhaps, was caused by the concern for color harmony, but probably carried in itself some information message, which today is not possible to accept. The work was commissioned by the brotherhood of St. Mark for the hall of Albergo.
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