Antonio Vivarini 1450 Saint Louis de Toulouse

Antonio Vivarini (Antonio of Murano) (active c. 14401480) was an Italian painter of the early

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-late Gothic period, who worked mostly in the

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. He is probably the earliest of a family of painters, which was descended from a family of glassworkers active in

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. The painting dynasty included his younger brother

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and Antonio's son

Alvise Vivarini Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, with whom he may ha ...

Life

He initially trained with Andrea da Murano, and his works show the influence of

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. The earliest known date of a picture of his, an altar-piece in the Accademia is 1440; the latest, in the

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, 1464, but he appears to have been alive in 1470. 1418 Antonio Vivarini Adoration of the Magi anagoria

He collaborated with his brother in law,

Giovanni d'Alemagna Giovanni d'Alemagna (; born Johannes Alamanus; 9 July 1450) was a Venetian renaissance painter of German ancestry, active in Italy, with his brother-in-law Antonio Vivarini on religious paintings in Venice and Padua, that are preserved in the na ...

(also known as "Joannes de Alemania"), who sometimes has been regarded as a brother (Giovanni of Murano). No trace of this painter exists of a date later than 1447. After 1447 Antonio painted either alone or in combination with his younger brother Bartolommeo in

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. The works of Antonio are well drawn for their epoch, with a certain noticeable degree of softness, and with good flesh and other tints. He was probably influenced by Mantegna, and worked with him in the Ovetari Chapel in 1450–51. It is sometimes difficult to assign authorship for works from the Vivarini studio. Three of his principal paintings are the ''Enthroned Madonna Virgin with the Four Doctors of the Church'', the ''Coronation of the Virgin'' and ''Saints Peter and Jerome''. The first two (in which Giovanni co-operated) are in the Venetian academy, the third in the

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. Though Alvise developed an interest in spatial coherence and solid form towards the end of the century, the Vivarini workshop, overall, continued to embody a traditional Gothic-influential approach for much longer.

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''Italian Paintings, Venetian School''
a collection catalog containing information about Vivarini and his works (see index; plates 100-101). {{DEFAULTSORT:Vivarini, Antonio 1480 deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Venice People from Murano