Antonio vivarini biography
- Antonio Vivarini (Antonio of Murano) (active c.
- Antonio Vivarini (born c.
- Antonio Vivarini was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-late Gothic period, who worked mostly in the Republic of Venice.
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Antonio Vivarini
Italian painter
Not to be confused with Antonio Vivaldi.
Antonio Vivarini (Antonio of Murano) (active c. 1440 – 1480) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-late Gothic period, who worked mostly in the Republic of Venice. He is probably the earliest of a family of painters, which was descended from a family of glassworkers active in Murano. The painting dynasty included his younger brother Bartolomeo and Antonio's son Alvise Vivarini.[1]
Life
He initially trained with Andrea da Murano, and his works show the influence of Gentile da Fabriano. The earliest known date of a picture of his, an altar-piece in the Accademia is 1440; the latest, in the Vatican Museums, 1464, but he appears to have been alive in 1470.[2]
He collaborated with his brother-in-law, Giovanni d'Alemagna (also known as "Joannes de Alemania"), who sometimes has been regarded as a brother (Giovanni of Murano). There is no trace of this painter after 1447. From then on, Antonio painted either alone or together with his younger brother
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Antonio Vivarini
After Giambono, Vivarini was the leading Venetian exponent of late Gothic painting in the mid-15th century. He was one of a family of painters and he collaborated with his brother-in-law, the German-born Giovanni d'Alemagna.Their joint works are remarkable for their elaborate architectural settings. They show knowledge of the style of Pisanello and Gentile da Fabriano, and, perhaps through Giovanni d'Alemagna, of German art.
Vivarini often signed his work Antonio of Murano, giving the island of Murano in the Venice lagoon as his place of origin. His major works of the 1440s were produced in collaboration with his brother-in-law, Giovanni d'Alemagna. After his death in 1449, Vivarini worked in conjunction with his younger brother, Bartolomeo, in Padua. The last famous painter of the family was Antonio's son, Alvise.
The nature of the collaboration between Vivarini and his brother-in-law remains uncertain, and in some works Giovanni d'Alemagna may have been the leading partner. The influence of recent developments in Paduan painting, represented by the art of Squ
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Family of Venetian painters. Antonio (c.1420–76/84) seldom worked independently. He collaborated first with his brother-in-law, the German-born Giovanni d'Alemagna (active 1441–50), and then from the 1450s with his own younger brother, Bartolomeo (c.1432–c.1499). The pictures produced by these partnerships are usually large polyptychs with stiff, archaic-looking figures and very elaborate carved and gilded frames in the Gothic tradition. Bartolomeo's independent works date from the 1460s onwards. He continued to paint polyptychs, but he modernized his style somewhat by imitating Mantegna. Alvise (c.1445–1503/5), son of Antonio, is the best-known member of the family. He presumably trained in the family workshop, but his work was more modern in style than that of his father or uncle, influenced particularly by Giovanni Bellini.
None of the Vivarini had much originality. There are examples of the work of all three in the National Gallery, London.
Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Arti
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