Antonio Veneziano (painter)
Antonio Veneziano (Antonio the Venetian),[1] was an Italian painter who was active mainly in Siena, Florence and Pisa, documented between 1369 and 1419.
He was born apparently in
Basilica di Santa Maria Novella in Florence. In 1374 he was registered in the Apothecaries' Guild, which included painters, of Florence. He also worked on the church of San Nicolò Reale in Palermo for the Compagnia di SS. Niccolo and Francesco, representing Virgin and St. John in grief (1388). He died in Florence. Gherardo Starnina
was Antonio Veneziano's most important student.
References
- Ghiberti, Lorenzo, Lorenzo Ghiberti, I commentarii, Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze, Firenze, Giunti, 1998.
- Ladis, Andrew, Antonio Veneziano and the Representation of Emotions, Apollo 124/295 (September 1986), 154–161.
- Vasari, Giorgio, Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, many editions and translations.
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II: L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 651.
- ^ Some archival references spell his name Antonio Viniziano.
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