Pordenone, Giovanni Antonio Sacchi (1483-1539)

Painter from Friuli, Italy. He painted religious frescoes and altarpieces in various cities of northern Italy. Pordenone is associated with the Venetian School and his work shows the fashionable 16th-century tendency (sometimes described as Mannerism) towards exaggeration.

It is assumed that he visited Rome, from the traces of the influence of Raphael Sanzio and Michelangelo that have been detected in his style.