in a nighttime landscape with artificial lighting. This type of painting was extremely popular with local audiences and made Bassano paintings highly valued. His works also began to feature more prominently pastoral elements, which were both painted by his father and part of his environment. Rather than placing religious scenes in Classical Roman settings (as his Renaissance counterparts did), he placed figures in a more natural landscape, where the trees and the flowers were as carefully rendered as his figures. References Further reading Aikema, Bernard (1996), Jacopo Bassano and His Public: Moralizing Pictures in an Age of Reform, ca. 1535-1600 (translated by Andrew P. McCormick), Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Rearick, W. R. (1993), Jacopo Bassano, 1510-1592, Fort Worth, Texas: Kimbell Art Museum. External links Jacopo Bassano in the Web Gallery of Art Jacopo Bassano: Founder of Landscape Style Italian Mannerist painters Painters from Venice 1510s births 1592 deaths Italian male painters People from Bassano del Grappa 16th-century Italian painters 16th-century Venetian people