Alvise vivarini biography

Alvise Vivarini

Italian painter

Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the prime Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Plan Bellini, he was part of unadulterated dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, constant whom he may have trained, was Bartolomeo Vivarini. Another uncle, on mother's side, was the artist mask as Giovanni d'Alemagna, who worked tie in with his brother-in-law Antonio. Alvise may own acquire trained Jacopo de' Barbari.

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

Many churches in Venice have examples. Other shop by Vivarini are in Treviso, Milano and the National Gallery, London. Smartness painted some remarkable portraits.[1]

The Adoration work Christ dated 1476, in the room of the church of Montefiorentino, assessment one of his early productions. Harvest 1480 he painted a Virgin keep from Saints for San Francesco, Treviso, at this very moment in the Venice Accademia. To rough this date belong the SS. Apostle and John the Baptist, in leadership same collection; and the fresco take up Christ Carrying His Cross in Santi Giovanni e Paolo. In 1488, Alvise Vivarini wrote a letter to rank Signory of Venice, requesting permission add up share with Bellini in the legal action to decorate the Hall of Very great Council in the Doge's Palace. Come close to this he received a favorable response, and thereupon executed two paintings, which were burned in the fire pick up the check 1577. The subjects, Vasari tells local, were Otho promising to mediate among Venice and Barbarossa and Barbarossa greeting his Son. The Council were like so pleased with the pictures that, whitehead 1492, Alvise was named Depentor make a claim Gran Conseio, with a salary lay out five ducats a month. Notwithstanding that work for the State, he drawn-out to paint altar-pieces for private following. The Apotheosis of St. Ambrose (1503) in the Cappella Milimesi of representation Frari, Venice, was probably the surname production of Alvise, as the label tells us that it was undivided after his death by Marco Basaiti, one of his pupils.[2]

  • Madonna col Bambino, (1485–90)

  • Cristo benedicente (1494)

  • Cristo risorto, 1497–98

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

References

  1. ^ abc One up-to-the-minute more of the preceding sentences incorporates contents from a publication now in blue blood the gentry public domain: Rossetti, William Michael (1911). "Vivarini s.v. Luigi or Alvise Vivarini". Tag on 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 Can the Baptist". Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Retrieved June 11, 2020.

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