ANTONIO VENEZIANO

ANTONIO VENEZIANO. - Fourteenth-century painter of Venetian origin. Between 1370 and 1388 he worked in Siena, Florence, and Pisa. In Florence he came under the influence of Orcagna’s followers; 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 with the Venetian Gothic painting milieu. Among his most important works are the (partly destroyed) frescoes in the Camposanto of Pisa, where, on the south wall, he depicted 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 are at Torre degli Agli, near Florence (Last Judgment), and at S. Niccolò Reale in Palermo (Flagellation, with the Virgin, evangelists, and prophets, 1388). Some attribute to him two Saints in the Pinacoteca Vaticana. Paintings by him were in the museums of Altenburg, Göttingen, and Hanover, and are in the Hurd collection in New York.