ANTONIO VENEZIANO

ANTONIO VENEZIANO. – A 14th-century painter of Venetian origin. Between 1370 and 1388 he worked in Siena, Florence, and Pisa. In Florence he came under the influence of the followers of Orcagna; in Pisa he certainly came into contact with the works of Traini, and in Siena, probably, with those of Vanni, without, however, losing his ties to the Venetian Gothic painting milieu. Among his most important works are the frescoes (now partially destroyed) in the Camposanto in Pisa, where, on the south wall, he depicted several scenes from the life of St Ranieri (c. 1384–87). Also in Pisa is his Assumption in the convent of S. Tommaso. Other works by him in Italy include a Last Judgment at Torre degli Agli, near Florence, a Flagellation with the Virgin, Evangelists, and Prophets in S. Niccolò Reale in Palermo (1388), and two Saints in the Vatican Pinacoteca, attributed to him by some scholars. Paintings of his were once in the museums of Altenburg, Göttingen, Hanover, and are now in the Hurd collection in New York.