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Domenico Veneziano

/ doˈmeːniko venetˈtsjaːno /

noun

  1. Domenico Veneziano1461MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: painter died 1461, Italian painter, noted for the St Lucy Altarpiece
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She didn’t go in much for going out, though she liked to visit the Fitzwilliam Museum and stand for a while in front of her favourite painting, Domenico Veneziano’s The Annunciation.

Beyond Padre Lanzi's grave, over the tomb of the learned Franciscan Fra Benedetto Cavalcanti, are two exceedingly powerful figures of saints in fresco, the Baptist and St. Francis; they have been ascribed to various painters, but are almost certainly the work of Domenico Veneziano, and closely resemble the figures of the same saints in his undoubtedly genuine picture in the Sala di Lorenzo Monaco in the Uffizi.

Andrea del Castagno impressed his contemporaries by his furious passions and savage intractability of temper, his quality of terribilità; although we now know that Vasari's story that Andrea obtained the secret of using oil as a vehicle in painting from his friend, Domenico Veneziano, and then murdered him, must be a mere fable, since Domenico survived Andrea by nearly five years.

The earliest trace that we find of Piero as a painter is in 1439, when he was an apprentice of Domenico Veneziano, and assisted him in painting the chapel of S. Egidio, in S. Maria Novella of Florence.

Have you heard the one about Andrea del Castagno murdering Domenico Veneziano?

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