Domenico Veneziano

Background

Domenico Veneziano was born circa 1410 in Venice, Veneto, Italy.

Education

Domenico Veneziano moved to Florence in 1422 – 1423 as a boy, to become a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano. After Gentile's death, he worked with Pisanello in Rome around 1423 – 1430.

Career

Domenico Veneziano's work was influenced by the style of Benozzo Gozzoli. In a letter from him to Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, dated from Perugia in 1438, where he likewise resided for many years, he mentioned his long connection with the fortunes of the Medici family, and begs to be allowed to paint an altarpiece for the head of that house. He was a contemporary with Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, since those two artists and himself are known to have valued the frescoes of Buonfigli at Perugia.

Between 1439 and 1441 he painted a masterpiece of the Adoration of the Magi. Another masterpiece is considered to be the Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece (c 1445 – 1447), originally in Santa Lucia dei Magnoli, Florence and now in the Uffizi. Painted in tempera on panel, the altarpiece displays such an unusual palette for this period that Vasari wrote that it had been painted in oil.

Domenico worked at the decorations of the Portinari chapel in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence from 1439 - 1445, and had as his assistants Piero della Francesca and Bicci di Lorenzo. It is certain that whilst employed there he used linseed oil as his medium, since the hospital books of that date make many allusions to this item in his expenses. His latter days were spent in Florence.

Achievements

• Domenico Veneziano was known for his a round panel of "The Adoration of the Magi", which was probably commissioned for the palace of the wealthy Medici family and now in Berlin. Other important works are the "Madonna del Roseto" in the National Museum of Art of Romania and the "Madonna Berenson" in the Villa I Tatti in Florence, both dating to around 1432 – 1437.

Works

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  • Virgin and Child

    1410

  • Madonna and Child

    1435

  • Madonna and Child

    1437

  • The Adoration of the Magi

    1439

  • St. John in the Desert

    1445

  • The Annunciation, predella panel from the St. Lucy Altarpiece

    1445

  • The Stigmatization of St. Francis

    1445

  • The Madonna and Child with Saints (detail)

    1445

  • Madonna and Child with St. Lucy, St. Francis, St. Nicolas and St. John the Baptist, from Santa Lucia dei Magnoli

    1447

  • Martyrdom of St. Lucy

    1448

  • The Miracle of St. Zenobius

    1448

  • Madonna and Child

    1450

  • Matteo Olivieri

    1450

  • St. John the Baptist and St. Francis of Assisi

    1454

  • Study of Apollo

  • Portrait of a Young Woman

Connections

teacher:

Gentile da Fabriano

teacher:

Pisanello

Pisanello was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian Renaissance and Quattrocento. He was known for his resplendent frescoes, portraits, drawings.

References

• The Paintings of Domenico Veneziano
  1980
• Paolo Uccello, Domenico Veniziano, Andrea Del Castagno (The Library of Great Masters)
  1991