DOMENICO VENEZIANO (originally Domenico de Bartolomeo di Venezia)
Biography
Domenico Veneziano, Italian painter, who was
one of the chief innovators in early Renaissance painting in Florence.
Many of his paintings have been lost, and others are of doubtful attribution,
but three works remain that illustrate his style. The Carnesecchi Tabernacle
(1440?, National Gallery, London), a fresco, is an early work that reveals
the influence of the earlier Florentine master Masaccio.
The Adoration of the Magi (1440?, Staatliche Museen, Berlin) contains a
well-developed landscape background that was unique in Florentine art of
the time and paved the way for further Renaissance landscape developments.
His major work, the altarpiece
for Santa Lucia dei Magnoli in Florence (1445?, Uffizi Gallery, Florence),
has a clarity and lightness that was an important contribution to Florentine
art and was an alternative to the heavy monumentality characteristic of
Masaccio's style. The piece also shows Domenico's unique treatment of space
and the human figure. The predellas (subsidiary paintings that form appendages
to a larger one, especially as part of an altarpiece) that once accompanied
Domenico's Santa Lucia work are dispersed and can be found in the National
Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; and Staatliche
Museen, Berlin.
"Domenico Veneziano," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c)
1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation.
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