Antonio Vivarini

Antonio Vivarini known as Antonio da Murano (Murano, 1415 - Venice, ca.1480) is a painter of the Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance.

Biography

Brother of Bartolomeo Vivarini and father of Alvise Vivarini, it starts to work with Andrea da Murano and its work shows the influence of Gentile da Fabriano.

Its Gothic pictorial culture will be renewed in contact with Masolino da Panicale then of Uccello and of Andrea del Castagno come to Venice and will direct itself towards a revival in reaction to the Tuscan rebirth.

He works in his workshop with his brother-in-law Giovanni d' Alemagna and, with died of this one in 1450, with his Bartolomeo brother.

Roberto Longhi calls it “Venetian Masolino”.

Works

Polyptyque of Holy Sabine (1443), in San Zaccaria, vault San Trovaso, with Giovanni d' Alemagna
Triptych of the Virgin in throne (1446), Academy, Venice, with Giovanni d' Alemagna
Decoration of the Ovetari vault, in Eremitani (1448)
Triptych of Santa Maria Formosa (1473), with her brother Bartolomeo
Triptych of San Giovanni in Bragora (1478), with his/her brother Bartolomeo
Prédelle in Berlin

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