Bordone

Bordone, Paris, Italian painter, was born in 1500 at Treviso. A pupil of Titian and Giorgione, he was in 1538 invited to France by Francis I., whose portrait with that of the Duke of Guise, the Cardinal of Lorraine, and other personages, he painted. His most celebrated picture is the Gondolier presenting the Ring of St. Mark to the Doge. In the National Gallery he is represented by Daphnis and Chloe and A Portrait of a Genoese Lady. He died in 1570 at Venice.