Paolo Veneziano

Paolo Veneziano, also Veneziano Paolo or Paolo da Venezia (active by 1333, died after 1358) was a medieval painter from Venice.[1] He has been called 'the most important Venetian painter of the 14th century'.[2] Many signed and dated works of this artist are known. He was regarded as the official painter of the Venetian Republic.[3]

The Annunciation

Life
Virgin Mary and Child, Louvre Museum, 1354.

He was born to a family of artists. He operated a large workshop in which he worked together with his sons Marco, Luca, and Giovanni. He was the official painter of Andrea Dandolo, for whom he and his sons Luca and Giovanni painted the Pala Feriale or “weekday altarpiece”, of the St Mark's Basilica in Venice.[4]

Paolo was in the past identified with the artist responsible for the works attributed to the Master of the Washington Coronation. There is no longer unanimity among art historians regarding this identification.[5]

Style

Paolo's style was indebted to Byzantine influences but also betrays a knowledge of contemporary painting in Rimini. His more advanced works show the influence of gothic art.

Through his art he was the founder of the Venetian school which would exert its influence throughout the 14th century and in particular on Lorenzo Veneziano.[1]

Notes
  1. Paolo Veneziano in: Federico Zeri, with the assistance of Elizabeth E. Gardner, Italian paintings : a catalogue of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art : Venetian school, p. 47-48
  2. The Random House Library of Painting and Sculpture: Dictionary of artists and art terms David Piper, Random House, 1981 ISBN 0-394-52131-5
  3. Robert Gibbs. "Paolo Veneziano." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 23 Mar. 2016
  4. Rona Goffen, 'Excerpt from the 1995 Save Venice Journal'
  5. Hans M. Schmidt, et al. "Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 23 Mar. 2016
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