BASSANO, JACOPO, or GIACOMO DA PONTE, (151 o-1592 ), Venetian genre painter, was born at Bassano in 151o, and died there on Feb. 13, 1592. He was first a pupil of his father, Francesco da Ponte, then of Bonifazio Veneziano in Venice, a follower of the school of Titian. His subjects were generally peasants and villages, cattle and landscape, with some portraits and historical subjects. One of his earliest subjects was "Samson slaying the Philistines" ; the remains of this fresco can still be seen on the outside of the Casa Michieli, Venice ; he painted portraits of Sebastiano Venerio Doge of Venice, Tasso, Ariosto, etc. His genuine works are somewhat rare and valuable, many of those which are called originals, being copies either by his sons or by others. Bassano's style varied considerably during his lifetime; at first his style was modelled on his father's, and he was then strongly influenced by Titian before he developed his own charac teristic manner. Although he painted few great pictures, his altar piece of the Nativity at Bassano is estimated highly by the best judges, and in Lanzi's opinion is the finest work of its class. One of his best pictures is the "Good Samaritan" in the National Gallery, London, where there is also "A Portrait of a Gentleman," and "Christ Driving the Money Changers out of the Temple." There are also pictures by him at Dublin, Florence, Milan, Naples, in the Louvre and at Venice. His four sons were all painters, and assisted their father: Francesco ; Giovanni Battista ; Leandro (1558-1623), and Girolamo (154o-1622). Pictures by Leandro are at Dresden, Dublin, Madrid, Munich and Venice.