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Antonio Veneziano

 

Antonio Veneziano [Antonio di Francesco da Venezia]

( fl 1369; d ?Florence, ?after 13 March 1419). Italian painter. Documents dated 1369–70 record that he produced a series of paintings, including frescoes in two chapels, for Siena Cathedral (all untraced). On 20 September 1374 he was registered as a member of the Arte dei Medici e Speziali in Florence. He is documented from 1384 until 3 March 1388 in Pisa, where he painted three large frescoes in the Camposanto: the Return of St Ranierus to Pisa, the Death and Burial of St Ranierus and Posthumous Miracles of St Ranierus (1384–6; Pisa, Mus. Sinopie Camposanto Mnmtl; see fig.). Czarnecki has demonstrated that Antonio Veneziano was registered, with interruptions, in the Florentine tax records until at least 1393; he further suggested that the painter should be identified with the ‘Antonio di Francesco dipintore’ recorded there until 1419. Apart from the Camposanto frescoes, only one verified work by Antonio survives: a signed and dated panel of the Flagellation (1388; Palermo, Mus. Dioc.). A group of paintings can be attributed to the painter on the basis of stylistic comparisons with this and the frescoes, but their chronology is disputed.

Virgin and Child

San Cristoforo

Apostle James the Greater

Decapitazione di san Giovanni Battista