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GUARIENTO

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 659 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUARIENTO , sometimes incorrectly named GUERRIERO, the first Paduan painter who distinguished himself. The only date distinctly known in his career is 1355, when, having already acquired high renown in his native See also:

city, he was invited by the Venetian authorities to paint a See also:Paradise, and some incidents of the See also:war of See also:Spoleto, in the See also:great See also:council-See also:hall of See also:Venice. These See also:works were greatly admired at the See also:time, but have See also:long ago disappeared under repaintings. His works in See also:Padua have suffered much. In the See also:church of the Eremitani are allegories of the See also:Planets, and, in its See also:choir, some small sacred histories in dead See also:colour, such as an Ecce Homo; also, on the upper walls, the See also:life of St See also:Augustine, with some other subjects. ,A few fragments of other paintings by Guariento are still extant in Padua. In the See also:gallery of See also:Bassano is a Crucifixion, carefully executed, and somewhat See also:superior to a merely traditional method of handling, although on the whole Guariento must rather be classed in that school of See also:art which preceded See also:Cimabue than as having advanced in his vestiges; likewise two other works in Bassano, ascribed to the same See also:hand. The painter is buried in the church of S. Bernardino, Padua.

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