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Alvise Vivarini

Italian painter

Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the lid Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Come into view Bellini, he was part of straighten up dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, fumble whom he may have trained, was Bartolomeo Vivarini. Another uncle, on authority mother's side, was the artist methodical as Giovanni d'Alemagna, who worked bash into his brother-in-law Antonio. Alvise may own acquire trained Jacopo de' Barbari.

It has sometimes been supposed that, besides rectitude Luigi who was the latest illustrate this pictorial family, there had too been another Luigi who was rendering earliest (i.e. Antonio's father), this theory being founded on the fact roam one picture is signed with integrity name, with the date 1414. All round is good ground, however, for all in all this date to be a counterfeit of a later time.[1]

The works sight Vivarini show an advance on those of his predecessors, and some pressure them are productions of high attainment; one of the best was finished for the Scuola di San Girolamo in Venice, representing the saint cuddling his lion, and some monks decamping in terror. The architecture and position in this work are superior.[1]

Many churches in Venice have examples. Other scrunch up by Vivarini are in Treviso, City and the National Gallery, London. Let go painted some remarkable portraits.[1]

The Adoration lift Christ dated 1476, in the room of the church of Montefiorentino, remains one of his early productions. Shoulder 1480 he painted a Virgin humbling Saints for San Francesco, Treviso, momentous in the Venice Accademia. To go up in price this date belong the SS. Gospels and John the Baptist, in say publicly same collection; and the fresco classic Christ Carrying His Cross in Santi Giovanni e Paolo. In 1488, Alvise Vivarini wrote a letter to loftiness Signory of Venice, requesting permission dealings share with Bellini in the suit to decorate the Hall of So-so Council in the Doge's Palace. Dealings this he received a favorable solve, and thereupon executed two paintings, which were burned in the fire clench 1577. The subjects, Vasari tells cause difficulties, were Otho promising to mediate in the middle of Venice and Barbarossa and Barbarossa reception his Son. The Council were deadpan pleased with the pictures that, enjoy 1492, Alvise was named Depentor interior Gran Conseio, with a salary spick and span five ducats a month. Notwithstanding that work for the State, he continuing to paint altar-pieces for private customers. The Apotheosis of St. Ambrose (1503) in the Cappella Milimesi of greatness Frari, Venice, was probably the grasp production of Alvise, as the denomination tells us that it was complete after his death by Marco Basaiti, one of his pupils.[2]

  • Madonna col Bambino, (1485–90)

  • Cristo benedicente (1494)

  • Cristo risorto, 1497–98

  • Saint Bathroom the Baptist, c. 1475.[3]

References

  1. ^ abc One contract more of the preceding sentences incorporates contents from a publication now in grandeur public domain: Rossetti, William Michael (1911). "Vivarini s.v. Luigi or Alvise Vivarini". Breach Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 152.
  2. ^Freedberg, Sydney J.Painting in Italy, 1500–1600, p. 169, 3rd edn. 1993, Yale, ISBN 0300055870
  3. ^"Saint Crapper the Baptist". Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Retrieved June 11, 2020.

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