Vivarini

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Saint Louis de Toulouse
, 1450

Vivarini is the surname of a family of painters from Murano (Venice), who produced a great quantity of work in Venice and its neighborhood in the 15th century, leading on to that phase of the school which is represented by Carpaccio and the Bellini family.[1]

  • National Gallery, London. This gallery contains also specimens of the two following painters.[1]
  • goldfinch, he sometimes drew a goldfinch as the signature of his pictures.[1]
  • Luigi or
    Scuola di San Girolamo in Venice, representing the saint caressing his lion, and some monks decamping in terror. Other works by him are in Treviso and in Milan. He painted some remarkable portraits. Marco Basaiti was one of his pupils.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainRossetti, William Michael (1911). "Vivarini". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 152.