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Guariento di Arpo (13101370), sometimes incorrectly referred to as Guerriero, was a 14th-century painter whose career was centered in
Guariento di Arpo (13101370), sometimes incorrectly referred to as Guerriero, was a 14th-century painter whose career was centered in Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of t ...
. The painter is buried in the church of San Bernardino, Padua.
Guariento's major commissions in Padua include the choir frescoes for the Augustinian hermits' church of the Eremitani, which depict scenes from the life of St. Augustine, the order's founder. Painted in 1338, the cycle was severely damaged by the bombardment of 1944. Guariento also decorated the chapel of the Palazzo Carrara in Padua with panel paintings of the Madonna, St Matthew Evangelist and 25 angels. After the reconstruction of the palace in 1779 the panels were transferred to the Museo Civico of Padua. The decoration of the chapel is the subject of a recent study by Kornelia Mohl.
In 1365, having already acquired high renown in his native city, he was invited by the Venetian republic to paint a representation of the Coronation of the Virgin
The Coronation of the Virgin or Coronation of Mary is a subject in Christian art, especially popular in Italy in the 13th to 15th centuries, but continuing in popularity until the 18th century and beyond. Christ, sometimes accompanied by God th ...
in the Palazzo Ducale, which survives in a fragmentary state, having been rediscovered underneath Tintoretto
Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed wit ...
's ''Paradise'' when this was taken down for conservation in 1903. Steer, John (1970), ''Venetian painting: A concise history'', pp. 28-29, London: Thames and Hudson.
Surviving works on panel include the ''Coronation of the Virgin'' altarpiece, dated to 1344 (Pasadena, Norton Simon Museum of Art); the ''Madonna of Humility'' dated to the 1340s (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum); the ''Madonna and Child'' from the 1360s (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art); and the ''Ascension of Christ'' of 1344 (Venice, Collezione Vittorio Cini).
Guariento is generally viewed as the first artist to successfully combine the volumetric and spatial developments of Florentine painting of the early ''trecento'' with the more linear and abstract Late Gothic and Byzantine manner that had hitherto prevailed in the Veneto.
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