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ANTONIO VIVARINI (Antonio of Murano)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIO See also:VIVARINI (Antonio of See also:Murano) was probably the earliest of this See also:family. He came from the school of See also:Andrea da Murano, and his See also:works show the See also:influence of See also:Gentile da See also:Fabriano. The earliest known date of a picture of his, an See also:altar-piece in the Venetian See also:academy, is 1440; the latest, in the Lateran museum, 1464, but he appears to have been alive in 1470. He worked in See also:company with a certain " Joannes de Alemania," who has been (with considerable doubt) regarded as a See also:brother (Giovanni of Murano), but no trace of this painter exists of a date later than 1447. After 1447 Antonio painted either alone or in See also:combination with his younger brother Bartolommeo. The works of Antonio are well See also:drawn for their See also:epoch, with a certain noticeable degree of softness, and with See also:good flesh and other tints. Three of his See also:principal paintings are the " Virgin Enthroned with the Four Doctors of the See also:Church," the See also:Coronation of the Virgin," and " Sts See also:Peter and See also:Jerome." The first two (in which Giovanni co-operated) are in the Venetian academy, the third in the See also:National See also:Gallery, See also:London. This gallery contains also specimens of the two under-named painters.

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