Bassano (surname) explained

Bassano is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Bassano (1829–1913), photographer, founder of companies in London known as:
  • Bassano and Davis, of 122 Regent Street (c. 1866)
  • Bassano's Studio's Ltd, of 25 Old Bond Street, (1904–1905)
  • Bassano Limited, of 25 Old Bond Street (from 1906)
  • Bassano and Vandyck Studio, (from 1964)
• Anthony Bassano, musician, son of Jeronimo Bassano
• Augustine Bassano (1530–1604), composer and lutenist b. Venice (?), d. London
• Cesare Bassano (1584–1648), Italian painter and engraver
• Chris Bassano, cricketer
• Francesco Bassano the Elder (c. 1475–1539), painter
• Francesco Bassano the Younger (1549–1592), painter
• Giovanni Bassano (c. 1558 – c. 1617), a Venetian composer and cornettist
• Jacopo Bassano (c. 1515–1592), a Venetian painter
• Jeronimo Bassano, a 16th-century Venetian musician who led a family of musicians who moved to the court of Henry VIII of England
• Leandro Bassano (1557–1622), painter
• Louisa Bassano, a 19th-century singer, elder sister of Alexander Bassano
• Peter Bassano, conductor, born 1945, descendant of Anthony Bassano

See also

• Hugues-Bernard Maret, Duc de Bassano (1763–1839), a French statesman