Also known as:
Italian: Guariento d'Arpo, Guariento di Arpo
GUARIENTO PADOVANO - Crucifix signed by G. Bassano, Civic Museum.
GUARIENTO PADOVANO. - Painter, son of Arpo, he is documented in Padua from 1338 to 1365; in 1365 he was summoned to Venice for the frescoes in the Doge's Palace; he was already dead by September 1370.
Among the numerous works assigned to him by the sources or attributed to him with certainty, the following are remembered: in Padua, the decorations of the Carrarese Reggia, of which some fragments of frescoes remain (at the Accademia) along with numerous panels from the ceiling of the chapel (Museo), and the frescoes of the choir of the church of the Eremitani (partly destroyed in the Second World War) executed together with assistants; in Bassano (Museo) a Crucifix, his only signed work; a Crucifix in the Fogg Museum in Cambridge (U.S.A.), etc. The last and most celebrated work is the fresco with the Paradise painted in the hall of the Maggior Consiglio in the Doge's Palace, whose remains, much damaged by the fire of 1577 and later covered by the great canvas by Tintoretto, were detached in 1904 and placed in a nearby hall. Among the disputed attributions is that of an important politician, dated 1344, from the Czernin collection in Vienna (also given to the circle of Giusto de' Menabuoi).
A personality of no great importance, despite the renown he enjoyed among his contemporaries, G. should be considered, rather than an innovator, an artist who fuses in a personal manner the characteristics of different styles: the Byzantinism of Venetian painting, the plastic researches of the new Giottesque culture, and a decorative linearism due to Gothic art, to which also goes back the taste for contrived compositions overloaded with detail.
Bibliography8 worksG. Fiocco, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, XV, pp. 172-73 (with previous bibl.); R. van Marle, The development of the italian schools of painting, I
BIBL.: G. Fiocco, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, XV, pp. 172-73 (with previous bibl.); R. van Marle, The development of the italian schools of painting, IV, The Hague 1924, p. 110; A. Moschetti, G. pittore padovano del sec. XV, in Atti e memorie Accad. di Padova, 40 (1924), p. 10; L. Coletti, Studi sulla pittura del Trecento a Padova: G. e Semitecolo, in Rivista d'arte, 12 (1930), pp. 323-80; A. Fitzgerald, G. di Arpo, in Memoirs of the Amer. Acad. in Rome, 9 (1931), p. 166; E. Sandberg Vavalà, Semitecolo and G., in Art in America, Dec. 1933, p. 3; R. Longhi, Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana, Florence 1946, pp. 7, 46; L. Coletti, I primitivi, III, I padani, Novara 1947, p. LIV.
Di, Carpegna Nolfo. “Guariento Padovano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, coll. 1207–1208. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/guariento-padovano.
MLA
Di, Carpegna Nolfo. “Guariento Padovano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 1207–1208. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/guariento-padovano.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_guariento_padovano,
author = {Di, Carpegna Nolfo},
title = {Guariento Padovano},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1207--1208},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/guariento-padovano}
}
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